
Waiting for Gertrude: a graveyard gothic
Animal stories, Canadian fiction, Fantasy, Ghost and horror stories, Humourous fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
Waiting for Gertrude is a love story, a whodunit, and a comic fantasy set in Paris's Pére-Lachaise cemetery, the final resting place of many celebrated personages. The story is told in a series of letters and portraits, written in the… voices of Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan, Chopin, La Fontaine, Marcel Proust, and Alice B. Toklas, whose souls now inhabit the bodies of cats in the graveyard. 2001.