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Cargando... Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day: Stories (The Plonsker Series) (edición 2020)por JD Scott (Autor)
Información de la obraMoonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day: Stories por J. D. Scott
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"The sly fabulism of JD Scott's fiction casts its own peculiar spell upon the reader as it outlines a world unsettlingly similar to our own. Scott troubles the line between what is literary and genre, fairy tale and parable. In one story, a perfumer keeps his boyfriend close at hand by dosing him with precise measures of poison. In another, a comical domestic drama hinges upon the life and death of an ancient chinchilla. Scott pushes liminality with magical scrolls, a drowned twin returning from the sea, and a witty retelling of the Crucifixion where a gym bunny chops down a tree in the Garden of Eden--only to transform the wood into a cross for himself. This debut collection ends with an epic novella where a heroic teenager comes of age inside an otherworldly shopping mall that spans the entire globe. Visceral, dreamlike, and full of dazzling prose: Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day announces the arrival of a distinctive talent who challenges us to see our own endless possibilities--to find luminescence inside and beyond the shadows."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Scott has a way with words that really makes this book unique. A way of describing things that makes them feel unreal, even if what is being described is completely normal. And then truly surreal things are woven in. I spent a lot of the time I was reading this book not really knowing where I stood, not knowing for certain what was real and what was metaphorical, or a dream or delusion. The whole book was like a strange dream.
All of the stories have an eerie feeling, a dream like quality. We see humanity in all of its weirdness and mundanity. Human connections and disconnections. Love and loss. Explorations of death. Ghosts and the occult show up in more than one of the story, as well as dreams and delusions. There's even a science fiction fantasy dystopian capitalist society, and a bizarre retelling of the Christian Easter.
My ratings for each story individually are as follows:
The Teenager 3/5
Chinchilla 4/5
The Hand That Sews 5/5
Cross 3/5
Moonflower, Nightshade, All The Hours Of The Day 5/5
Where Parallel Lines Come To Touch 5/5
Night Things 3/5
Their Sons Return Home To Die 4/5
After The End Came The Mall, And The Mall Was Everything 4/5
Fordite Pendant 3/5
My overall rating for this book is 4/5. It's an interesting collection of stories that takes the reader on a dream like experience, and really makes you think. I certainly wouldn't consider it easy reading material! It takes some time and some thinking about, but it is well worth a read. ( )