Joel Lane (1963–2013)
Autor de The Lost District
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press
Obras de Joel Lane
Black Country 10 copias
The Lost District 4 copias
And Some Are Missing [short fiction] 3 copias
Like Shattered Stone [short fiction] 2 copias
The Hunger of the Leaves 2 copias
Common Land [short fiction] 2 copias
Power Cut [short fiction] 2 copias
Still Water 1 copia
The Country Of Glass 1 copia
Mine 1 copia
The Silent Dance 1 copia
And Make Me Whole 1 copia
My Stone Desire 1 copia
The Dispossessed 1 copia
Coming Of Age 1 copia
Beyond the River 1 copia
Thicker Than Water 1 copia
After The Flood 1 copia
City of Night {short story} 1 copia
The Moon Never Changes 1 copia
All the Shadows [short story] 1 copia
The Receivers 1 copia
The Foggy Foggy Dew 1 copia
Feels Like Underground 1 copia
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Rustblind and Silverbright: A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Black Static 01 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1963
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2013-11-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer
editor
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 89
- Miembros
- 343
- Popularidad
- #69,543
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 38
- Favorito
- 2
The Witnesses are Gone is a seriously weird read in a really good way. It feels like you’re reading in the world between wakefulness and sleep with a touch of drug induced haze. I found it really interesting in its exploration of the way that obsession can colour how we see our lives. It’s a short story, 96 pages in the paperback ARC into a life of depression, obsession and later drug haze.
Martin discovers some old videos in his shed, which he watches. (I would do exactly the same) One of them is a movie by a French movie director Jean Rien who specialises into the weird and surrealist, and the movie ends up taking over his life. Martin starts to loose touch with the reality around him, and see things from the movie in his real life, and has an altered perception of things that are happening. In the middle of the book, Martin and his girlfriend Judith went to Scotland to find the village were one of the Rien movies was reportedly filmed, and on the way back a train crash leads to the death of Judith which Martin blames on his obsession and ultimately Rien. From there, he hands in his notice at work, sells his house and gets on a boat to Mexico following the death of an Mexican director that seemed to be Rien. On the boat out he meets a woman who is also looking for information regarding a Rien movie her and her late boyfriend were in. They take a LOT of heroin together, and this ends with the woman collapsing into nothing, just bones and a dress. Martin collapses, found on the road by locals and taken to a hospital. Martin uses this experience to reconstruct how he views the world, and reality, which leads to the quote at the top.
Obviously, this is only a quick summation and has left out a lot of details about the book but it is an incredible read. This is unlike anything I’ve ever read before and I really enjoyed it.… (más)