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BookBrowse Reviews The Night Tourist: The Night Tourist weaves together New York City’s secret history and its modern-day landscape to create a highly vivid ghost world, full of magical adventure and page-turning action

The Night Tourist
by Katherine Marsh
Paperback, Sep 2008,
256 pages.
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Meet the aptly named Jack Perdu, a lonely 14-year-old who lost his mother in a mysterious, freak accident 8 years earlier. He and his father live on the campus of Yale University where his father is an archaeology professor. Jack leads a quiet life, spending his free time helping one of the Classics professors with his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, until the fateful day when Jack gets knocked down by a car and starts seeing what he later understands are ghosts. A couple of days later, his father sends him to New York to visit a mysterious doctor; on the way home he meets a young female ghost named Euri in the whispering gallery of Grand Central Station and travels into the Manhattan underworld with her - not the underground but the...
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Katherine Marsh, who grew up in New York but now lives in Washington where she is the managing editor of The New Republic magazine, takes readers on a gorgeous tour of New York City with a particular emphasis on Grand Central Station - from its well known ceiling to lesser known features such as the whispering gallery and the secret passages below the station.

Key to the story is a copy of Viele's map of Manhattan. Col. Egbert L. Viele (1825-1902) published his...
This review was originally published in November 2007, and has been updated for the September 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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