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Monet's Ghost
What would you do if you were trapped in a painting? Geena just wants to get out.
Geena Howe loves art, and is thrilled to find that she has the ability to literally project herself into paintings. She can even travel to places beyond what is depicted on the canvas, but can only come back at the spot where she came in. When she enters one of Monet's water lily paintings, she meets the denizens of a Victorian castle who believe the castle is haunted and that it constantly changes size. Geena is skeptical at first, but then sees the ghost herself, and experiences strange changes. Suddenly, the moat with the water lilies where she came into the painting is gone. . . .
In this exciting new Dragonflight fantasy novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, readers will be captivated as Geena struggles to keep her own identity and confront the mysterious ghost.
Geena Howe loves art, and is thrilled to find that she has the ability to literally project herself into paintings. She can even travel to places beyond what is depicted on the canvas, but can only come back at the spot where she came in. When she enters one of Monet's water lily paintings, she meets the denizens of a Victorian castle who believe the castle is haunted and that it constantly changes size. Geena is skeptical at first, but then sees the ghost herself, and experiences strange changes. Suddenly, the moat with the water lilies where she came into the painting is gone. . . .
In this exciting new Dragonflight fantasy novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, readers will be captivated as Geena struggles to keep her own identity and confront the mysterious ghost.
151 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1997
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About the author
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
260 books477 followersA professional writer for more than forty years, Yarbro has sold over eighty books, more than seventy works of short fiction, and more than three dozen essays, introductions, and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing - in 1961-1962 - was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet.
After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers.
She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories.
In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. In 2006 the International Horror Guild enrolled her among their Living Legends, the first woman to be so honored; the Horror Writers Association gave her a Life Achievement Award in 2009. In 2014 she won a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention.
A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.
She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and an experienced seamstress. The rest is catch-as-catch-can.
Divorced, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area - with two cats: the irrepressible Butterscotch and Crumpet, the Gang of Two. When not busy writing, she enjoys the symphony or opera.
Her Saint-Germain series is now the longest vampire series ever. The books range widely over time and place, and were not published in historical order. They are numbered in published order.
Known pseudonyms include Vanessa Pryor, Quinn Fawcett, T.C.F. Hopkins, Trystam Kith, Camille Gabor.
After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers.
She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories.
In 1997 the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on Yarbro, and in 2003 the World Horror Association presented her with a Grand Master award. In 2006 the International Horror Guild enrolled her among their Living Legends, the first woman to be so honored; the Horror Writers Association gave her a Life Achievement Award in 2009. In 2014 she won a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention.
A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco.
She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and an experienced seamstress. The rest is catch-as-catch-can.
Divorced, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area - with two cats: the irrepressible Butterscotch and Crumpet, the Gang of Two. When not busy writing, she enjoys the symphony or opera.
Her Saint-Germain series is now the longest vampire series ever. The books range widely over time and place, and were not published in historical order. They are numbered in published order.
Known pseudonyms include Vanessa Pryor, Quinn Fawcett, T.C.F. Hopkins, Trystam Kith, Camille Gabor.
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December 28, 2009
Blessed with the ability to literally throw herself into paintings, art lover Geena Howe enters one of Monet's water lily paintings, where she encounters
a mysterious ghost in a Victorian castle."
I was so disappointed in this book. the premise was intriguing, a girl who can enter paintings at will. Unfortunately the book was boring, the main character was by turns annoying and whiny and I was annoyed with the whole book. the ending was also way to abrupt.
a mysterious ghost in a Victorian castle."
I was so disappointed in this book. the premise was intriguing, a girl who can enter paintings at will. Unfortunately the book was boring, the main character was by turns annoying and whiny and I was annoyed with the whole book. the ending was also way to abrupt.
April 12, 2010
I read this when I was a kid so it's obviously biased, but I loved it then and I plan on reading it again. Has a nice mysterious atmosphere.
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