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Last Days (2010 original; edición 2009)

por Brian Evenson (Autor), Peter Straub (Introducción)

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To find a cult leader's killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror. Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson's Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who's cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes amputation brings one closer to God. Kline is tasked with finding the cult leader's killer. But to get to the truth, Kline must lose himself-literally-one body part at a time. Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that's disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.… (más)

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Miembro:	strunz94
Título:	Last Days
Autores:	Brian Evenson (Autor)
Otros autores:	Peter Straub (Introducción)
Información:	Underland Press (2009), Edition: First Edition, 256 pages
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Last Days por Brian Evenson (Author) (2010)

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Publisher describes this as intense and deeply unsettling. I could not agree more. Our protagonist, a detective that had just gone through a traumatic experience - indeed an intense and deeply unsettling one, is co-opted, corrupted and lampooned when he gets involved in a religious cult that takes bodily penance, self-flagellation and the like to its extreme. The cult’s credo is the more body parts a member can chop off, cut off, the better. Ears, fingers, eyes, limbs -anything goes. Self-flagellation? No, Sir. That simply won’t do.
Our protagonist is disgusted, and rightly so, since he himself just lost his hand to a hatchet. And he did not volunteer - goes without saying. Soon our detective realizes that there is much more at stake than solve if a murder mystery for a cult of plum-mad religious fanatics. But read for yourself - if you got the stomach. (

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nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |

One of the most relentlessly violent novels I have read, and I love it for that. (

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audient_void | Jan 6, 2024 |

This is a punch up of Evenson's "Brotherhood of Mutilation" an almost perfect short story. The second half, which pads the original out to novel length, really does feel like a shoddy sequel. Oh well (

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ethorwitz | Jan 3, 2024 |

I love this fucking book, no two stumps about it.

fleshed | Jul 16, 2023 |

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (

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Nombre del autor	Rol	Tipo de autor	¿Obra?	Estado
Evenson, Brian	Autor	autor principal	todas las ediciones	confirmado
Straub, Peter	Introducción	autor secundario	algunas ediciones	confirmado

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The Brotherhood of Mutilation por Brian Evenson

▾Premios y Honores

Premios

Black Quill Award (Nominado – Best Small Press Chill – 2009)

RUSA CODES Reading List (Ganador – Horror – 2010)

Shirley Jackson Award (Nominado – Novela – 2009)

Spinetingler Award (Nominado – Novel: Rising Star – 2010)

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100 Best Horror Books of All Time (2009)

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Kline

Paul

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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast if from thee . . . And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee . . .--Matthew 5:29-30

You've only got one finger left,
And it's pointing toward the door.--Beck, "Lord Only Knows"

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It was only later that he realized the reason they had called him, but by then it was too late for the information to do him any good.

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To find a cult leader's killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror. Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson's Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who's cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes amputation brings one closer to God. Kline is tasked with finding the cult leader's killer. But to get to the truth, Kline must lose himself-literally-one body part at a time. Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that's disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.

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