What happened after the Phantom of the Opera disappeared into the
bowels of the Paris Opera House, carrying the unconscious
Christine? Forsyth reveals all - clearly enjoying this sideways
shift from political intrigue to romantic legend. Following a
preface recalling the original story, he launches into a
turn-of-the-century sequel in ten different voices, initially that
of Antoinette Giry, one-time mistress of the Paris Opera House
Corps de Ballet, who first rescued Erik Muhlheim, hideously
disfigured, filthy, chained and tormented, from the funfair where
he was an 'exhibit'. She's to save him again, smuggling him on to a
US-bound ship, arriving on Coney Island and begins a new, secret
life as a powerful entrepreneur, building New York's tallest
skyscraper and an opera house rivalling the Met to lure his beloved
Christine (now a famous diva) across the Atlantic. The story is
consistently ingenious and intriguing, and the denouement is even
more sensational than the original finale. An audacious, triumphant
extension to an abiding myth. (Kirkus UK)
It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at
the Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at
Neuilly. And there, in a cage, she saw a filthy manacled creature
whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. It was
Antoinette Giry who saved him, freed him, cured his wounds and
finally let him find a dwelling place in the labyrinthine depths of
the Opera House. The creature - Erik - whose hideous face hid a
brilliant brain of near-genius, was to become the Phantom of the
Opera - magician, artists, musician, and lover. When he tried to
lure the object of his adoration to his underground domain - it was
to end in tragedy. It was Madame Giry who saved him once more, set
him on a ship to the New World - and there Erik Muhlheim began a
new and secret life, a life that began in misery and poverty but in
which his incredible skills finally carved out an unexpected
kingdom of power. And there it was he learned again of Christine,
whose life had changed dramatically since that night in the Paris
Opera House. Inevitably, their paths must cross again in the old
sequence of tragedy and triumph. The Phantom, one of the most
mysterious and romantic figures ever created, soars again in a
world of his own making. Frederick Forsyth's magnificent and
evocative story adds a new dimension to the legend of the Phantom.
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