This tale of summer camp horror and mystery by the author of I Am Legend is ';a deeply engaging story with a clear writing style that is a pleasure to read' (Publishers Weekly). Camp Pleasant is a place of natural beauty and campfire singalongs. But when Matt Harper arrives there to work as a counselor, he discovers it is also a place of unrelenting abuse and brutality. The new camp director ';Big Ed' Nolan is such a bully that the bucolic paradise feels more like a miniature Third Reich... until someone finally has enough and kills Big Ed. The suspects include a troubled young camper, a counselor who quit in the face of homophobic humiliation, and Big Ed's own wife, Ellen. ';[This] minimalist plot would be inadequate in other hands, but Mathesonauthor of Somewhere in Time and Hell House as well as classic Twilight Zone teleplayshas such a command of his craft that this book is a pure pleasure...The simple style recalls Hemingway' (Publishers Weekly).
| ISBN: | 9780795315763 |
| Publication date: | 12th May 2011 |
| Author: | Matheson, Richard |
| Publisher: | RosettaBooks |
| Format: | Ebook |
This tale of summer camp horror and mystery by the author of I Am Legend is ';a deeply engaging story with a clear writing style that is a pleasure to read' (Publishers Weekly). Camp Pleasant is a place of natural beauty and campfire singalongs. But when Matt Harper arrives there to work as a counselor, he discovers it is also a place of unrelenting abuse and brutality. The new camp director ';Big Ed' Nolan is such a bully that the bucolic paradise feels more like a miniature Third Reich... until someone finally has enough and kills Big Ed. The suspects include a troubled young camper, a counselor who quit in the face of homophobic humiliation, and Big Ed's own wife, Ellen. ';[This] minimalist plot would be inadequate in other hands, but Mathesonauthor of Somewhere in Time and Hell House as well as classic Twilight Zone teleplayshas such a command of his craft that this book is a pure pleasure...The simple style recalls Hemingway' (Publishers Weekly).
Camp Pleasant features in the following genres: Horror and Supernatural Fiction
Camp Pleasant is available in Ebook
Camp Pleasant was written by Matheson, Richard and published by RosettaBooks
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