BRADFORD MORROW is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and poetry, including Ariel's Crossing and Giovanni's Gift. He is also the founder of the literary magazine Conjunctions, which he has edited since 1981. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2007 and is a professor of literature at Bard College.
"A subtler take on the high-tension ghost story."
--Bloomberg
"The Diviner's Tale is vividly imagined and carefully plotted...an
ambitious book, an attempt to explore the heart's mysteries by
means of stories and images of the rolling profusion of
language."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Powerful."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Morrow quietly drops clues as he guides you deeper into the
mystery of the dead girl -- and into Cass's own mind."
--The New York Times
"With The Diviner's Tale, Morrow demonstrates...that one need not
sacrifice literary chops for more commercial leanings when the two
are easily and readily combined."
--Sarah Weinman for The Los Angeles Times
A "solid gothic-infused tale of family secrets. ... Morrow (Ariel's
Crossing) beautifully evokes Cassandra's inner turmoil..."
--Publishers Weekly
"A committed dowser but reluctant psychic is the winsome
protagonist of this sixth novel from Morrow (Ariel's Crossing,
2002, etc.), which occupies a middle ground between domestic
realism and Gothic suspense...Morrow does a fine job portraying a
family whose love transcends sharply conflicting worldviews..."
--Kirkus Reviews
"In his sublime new novel The Diviner's Tale, Bradford Morrow
accomplishes the deep, subtle miracle I have been waiting and
waiting for someone to effect--he gives us the first novel-length
work of fiction that actually does create a seamless breathing
breathtaking unity of the literary and the suspense novel. This
novel detonates the very notion of genre. And it works because it
is riveting, insightful, sentence by sentence charged with feeling,
as it bears us helpless with it on its downward journey to
illumination."
--Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story and A Dark Matter
"Bradford Morrow, like the diviner-heroine of The Diviner's Tale,
is a mesmerizing storyteller who casts an irresistible spell. He
has constructed an ingeniously plotted mystery that is at the same
time a love story--luminous and magical, fraught with suspense,
beautifully and subtly rendered--a feat of prose divination."
--Joyce Carol Oates, author of A Fair Maiden
"Bradford Morrow is a force of nature. I have already publicly used
the word 'masterpiece' about one of his books, Trinity Fields. It
is a measure of this writer that I must invoke the word again, and
about a novel that not only contains pitch-perfect, surpassingly
beautiful line-to-line writing but that finds in fictional genre
forms both narrative excitement and profound human insight fully as
successfully as Dostoevsky did with murder mysteries and Melville
did with sea adventures. The Diviner's Tale will not only delight,
it will endure."
--Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange
Mountain and Hell
"An astonishing dark gem of a novel, The Diviner's Tale is a
gorgeously written, deeply unsettling thriller that kept me reading
long past my bedtime for three nights in a row. I don't regret a
moment of it, and neither will you; I loved this book."
--Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss and Ilyria "Superb. The
only thing I did for two straight days was read this book--it
really is that riveting. It reminded me of the greatest Hitchcock
films that were somehow alchemically able to combine suspense,
wonder, and romance all in one seamless story that kept you
guessing and gasping right up until the end. A long time fan of
Morrow's work, I can honestly say this is the best he's ever
done."
--Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea and The Ghost in Love
"Bradford Morrow's The Diviner's Tale packs a mighty emotional
wallop. This haunting portrayal of a woman possessed by
irresistible visions which draw her through mystery and terror to
cataclysmic self-discovery is both chilling and impossible to put
down. Morrow is at the top of his form: bold, original, and
mesmerizing. Truly a stunning achievement."
--Valerie Martin, author of The Confessions of Edward Day "Bradford
Morrow's beautifully written and tautly paced novel brings the old
and all but forgotten gift of divination into the modern world.
With the aptly named but thoroughly contemporary Cassandra as the
book's flawlessly rendered voice, Morrow has created a woman both
heroic in what she seeks and human in what she finds. The Diviner's
Tale is about past crimes and future consequences, a tale whose
subtle and mysterious confluences are as elusive as water
underground."
--Thomas H. Cook, author of The Last Talk with Lola Faye "The
Diviner's Tale is Morrow's most ambitious novel yet. He deftly
wicks the literary and the paranormal into a single strand, making
us wonder why we ever thought of the two as separate, and then uses
this thread to weave a perfectly articulated mystery. The result is
a sly masterpiece by a truly marvelous stylist that will cause you
to question what you thought you knew about both genre and
literature. Triply satisfying, The Diviner's Tale is a virtuoso
performance."
--Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain and Fugue State "The
Diviner's Tale is chilling and unexpectedly powerful... Morrow
writes extraordinay literary thrillers, giving us beautiful
language while telling an old-fashioned, nail-biting story."
-- Bookpage
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