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The Ghost of Greenwich Village

A Novel

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1 of 1 copy available

In the tradition of Sophie Kinsella and Lauren Weisberger comes this charming debut about a young woman who moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement, only to find that her apartment is haunted by the cantankerous ghost of an old beat-generation writer, who needs her help in finishing his life's work.

For Eve Weldon, moving to Greenwich Village is a dream come true. She grew up listening to stories of her mother's time there during the bohemian era of the sixties, when she immersed herself in a lively community of artists and writers. But when Eve finally arrives, the only writer she meets is a cranky ghost named Donald, and the only writing she manages to do is for a morning news show called Smell the Coffee. The competitive environment of the network is a far cry from the congenial camaraderie of the literary scene in her mother's day, and Eve begins to wonder if the world she sought has disappeared entirely. But as she struggles to balance her new job, a budding friendship with a legendary fashion designer, and a search for clues to her mother's past, she starts to realize that community can come in all different forms and that the true magic of Greenwich Village is eternal, though it may sometimes reveal itself in the most unexpected ways.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Eve, a newcomer to the Big Apple, finds her Greenwich Village apartment comes fully equipped with the ghost of Donald, a beatnik writer who lived, and died, in the apartment. Now he's found a comfortable niche in a corner of Eve's head. Nicole Vilencia's enthusiastic reading captures just the right smart-alecky tone for Eve. However, Vilencia's mispronunciations are distracting, her foreign accents don't work, and none of her New Yorkers sound like New Yorkers. That said, she has an engaging voice and an upbeat attitude. As Eve tries to make it in Manhattan, dealing with Donald, a new job, a new puppy, and new romantic possibilities, Vilencia's narration adds a pleasant insouciance to Lorna Graham's imaginative novel. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 25, 2011
      TV news veteran Graham makes her fiction debut with an amusing if needlessly busy story of a young woman trying to make it in the big city. Eve leaves Ohio for a life of excitement in Manhattan, settling into an apartment in Greenwich Village with a (relatively) cheap rent because nobody wants to deal with the resident ghost, Donald Bellows, the "beatnik from hell" who insists on dictating a novel to Eve, who complies just to keep the peace. She falls into a job writing for a morning talk show, stumbling at first and then settling in after a successful interview with prickly and legendary designer, Matthias Klieg. The challenge is keeping her job while juggling Donald's demands, a sadistic co-host, the elegant Mr. Klieg, and a rescued puppy. Graham draws a cute and sometimes horrifying picture of life backstage at a morning talk show, but the novel is so overplotted and densely populated that readers may well have trouble keeping things straight.

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