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The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (2020)

por M. John Harrison

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"Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical ... Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mother's house, trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them"--… (más)
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This is very low-key British--horror? Too low key to be horror, I guess--more like a mainstream novel with some weird elements thrown in, but again, the effect of this novel is going to depend totally upon the reader's ability to identify with the characters and immerse him or herself into the book's atmosphere. It is well-written, and the depictions of parts of London and the Midlands conjure up those places effectively. But as a narrative, it lacks a lot of forward motion. We can see that strange things are happening, but the author doesn't impose much meaning on the reader--it is up to us to figure it out and how it affects us seems to be our own business. In the end, satisfying for the travelogues, not so much in other respects. ( )
  datrappert | Oct 27, 2021 |
Just about worth reading for the beautiful writing and descriptiveness, but the story and characters are so distanced and listless I couldn't connect with any of it. ( )
  SChant | May 21, 2021 |
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Like other Harrison that I have read, it didn't really work for me. There's an intricate narrative set in contemporary England, the same people turn up in your life over and over, and some green people are emerging from the rivers (the only non-white people mentioned in the book). I'm afraid it left me rather cold - obviously I am missing something. ( )
  nwhyte | May 17, 2021 |
Liked the style (and the author's use of language), but because it wasn't what I expected (SF&F) I didn't really enjoy it. A bit depressing. ( )
  RegT | Dec 10, 2020 |
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"Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical ... Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her dead mother's house, trying to make new friends. But what, exactly, happened to her mother? Why has the local waitress disappeared into a shallow pool in a field behind the house? And why is the town so obsessed with that old Victorian morality tale, The Water Babies? As Shaw and Victoria struggle to maintain their relationship, the sunken lands are rising up again, unnoticed in the shadows around them"--

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