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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. With prose that affects the reader like poetry, a story that is never predictable, and characters mesmerizing in their strangeness, reading this book was a thoroughly absorbing, mind altering experience. Kathe Koja's ability to turn a phrase, a passage, and a tale is unnervingly masterful, and this novel in particular never failed to keep me from settling into comfortable routine. Rereading it in 2020, it had no less of an impact on me as it did in the 1990s. I don't know if there is any such thing as a perfect book, but this novel comes remarkably close. UTTERLY DEVASTATED I could read this book forever, why did it have ever have to end? This book is labeled incorrectly, there is no Horror in this book. Not one bit. This is a character study, focusing on mental illness and schizophrenia is the demon. Her language........... It's utterly beautiful despite how grim the details are. I believe this story will live inside my mind for a long time.... its full of memorable scenes which will remain imprinted in my retina, eternal flashing images transfixing me for eternity. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Kathe Koja's shattering new novel, Strange Angels, is a dark, fascinating story of art, madness, and obsession." "Grant is a freelance photographer who has come up against an artistic block. When he sees the crayon drawings done by a schizophrenic man named Robin, Grant is immediately fascinated by Robin's genius, hungry for the subtle truth that seems hidden in the arcing, crossing lines." "Completely obsessed, Grant feels it's his mission to help Robin fully realize his artistic potential. He persuades Robin to check out of the hospital and move in with him. He encourages Robin to draw episodes from the most disturbed periods of his life. But Robin becomes more and more withdrawn until he doesn't want to draw anymore." "Then Grant realizes the transcendent truth Robin holds is not to be found in his art, but in Robin himself. He must go deeper and deeper into Robin. Together they must explore altered states, must undergo sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation. Robin deteriorates further. Gradually Grant becomes convinced that Robin is transforming into something new, some kind of angel." "On a par with Katherine Dunn or Donna Tartt, Kathe Koja is a powerful young writer whose distinctive voice will hold you spellbound as you take a journey into darkness unlike any you've been on before."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Because of Koja's idiosyncratic narration we don't even understand anything about the inner workings of the schizophrenics Robin or Saskia. There is only the barest of plots. Koja does like to repeat herself, over and over and over again. Endlessly turning the same thing every which way to show us how clever her prose is and how obsession works. The book ends up being as dull as can be and we never really care about anyone even poor Robin the tragic one.
Leave this one collecting dust on the shelf. ( )