The historian Kostova, Elizabeth. creator text Thrillers (Fiction). Occult fiction. Vampire fiction. nyu 2005 monographic eng
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816 pages ; 25 cm. Three generations search for Dracula's resting place, and their stories are nested within each other, so that we know that at least two quests ended badly. Kostova rations her thrills very carefully so that we jump out of our chair at quite slight surprises, especially when we have come to expect buckets of blood and loud bangs. She also has a profound and well-communicated sense of place and period, so that the book is equally at home in 1930s Rumania, Cold War Budapest and 1970s Oxford. Kostova is particularly good on the sights and sounds of remote country places and the taste of real peasant food--this sensuous realism does not always go with her other skill, the creation of imagined documents and folksongs that feel as real and true as what might be actual. Vampires Fiction 9780316057882 0316057886 DLC 040927 20241108112742.0 eng