The Unsettling - Couverture rigide

Rock, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1596921714 ISBN 13 : 9781596921719

Editeur : Macadam Cage Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Rock Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A stunning, Poe-esque collection of short fiction about outsiders, lost dogs, romance, and life’s surprising mysteries.

Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in The Unsettling attend to those startling moments when what we have understood as familiar is suddenly revealed as mysterious and foreign.

A lonely man saving library books from an outbreak of mold listens to a coworker’s tale about a blind woman and imbues it with his own sense of romance; a woman drives a Gold Firebird through the desert with a television playing “Rockford Files” reruns on the passenger seat; and a girl returns to her childhood home to spy on its new inhabitants, not realizing they are aware of her surveillance.

Told through Rock’s imaginative and wholly original voice, these are haunted tales about fascination, transformation, and the relationship between the two.

Revue de presse

"Mr. Rock has an eye for detail, with lucid, confident metaphors reminiscent of Annie Proulx."
–Wall Street Journal

"Here's fiction that's often exciting to read for all the old reasons: voice, vision, talent, guts."
–Kirkus Reviews

“...beautifully written, dreamlike, but like dreams, frequently ambiguous, brimming with eerie, colorful details that are rarely, if ever, fully explained.”
— Portland Mercury

“The collection, although complex, will be read quickly in stolen moments.”
— Booklist (starred)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macadam Cage Pub
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596921714
• ISBN 13: 9781596921719
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible