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Book Review of The Phantom of Manhattan

The Phantom of Manhattan
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In 1906 Erik, the creature with the hideous face but poetic heart, has escaped to America, to a life that begins in misery, but in time makes him incredibly weathy and brutally powerful. But he never forgot the obsessional love of his life, Christine, the understudy who became a mega-star due to this coaching. Then a mysterious, life-changing letter arrives from Paris and he determines he must see her again, a decision that leads to a vortex of passion, love, s in, death, and redemption.