# Guestbook

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- Book: [Guestbook](https://www.bookquiver.com/leanne-shapton/guestbook) ([Guestbook.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leanne-shapton/guestbook.md))
- Authors: [Leanne Shapton](https://www.bookquiver.com/leanne-shapton)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-149-0
- Published: 2019-03-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Here a tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at the foot of their former beds, some distraught, some fascinated at the sight of their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you , a friend tells her. He sensed the empathy you had for those men . In more than two dozen stories and vignettes accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images - found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits - Guestbook presents the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths through life. Shapton explores the earthly and sublime experience of existence by expanding the traditional ghost story into a new constellation of words and images.