House with a Clock in Its Walls

Name: House with a Clock in Its Walls
Rating: 4.2 (17 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780606053532

by Unknown Author

4.2

(17 ratings)

179 pages1993TurtlebackISBN 9780606053532

Fiction Mystery Children's Travel

About this book

Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.

Publication Details

Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 1993
Pages: 179
ISBN: 9780606053532
Language: en

About Unknown Author

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)