Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522625 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Shrine |
| Authors: | Author: James Herbert |
| Page Count: | 544 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A modern miracle builds conflict between sceptics and believers, but will divine power be harnessed for good or evil? <p><b>Now a major film called <i>The Unholy </i>starring <i>The Walking Dead</i>'s </b><b>Jeffrey Dean Morgan.</b><br><br><b>In James Herbert's horror novel <i>Shrine</i>, innocence and evil have become one . . .<br></b><br>A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can perform miracles. <br><br>Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. <br><br>She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-07-05 |
