Lauren Owen
Autor(a) de The Quick
About the Author
Image credit: Photo: Ursula Soltys, 2013
Obras de Lauren Owen
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1985
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (St. Hilda's)
University of East Anglia - Premiações
- Curtis Brown Prize (2009)
- Agente
- Jenny Hewson
- Pequena biografia
- Lauren Owen is twenty-eight years old and grew up in the grounds of a boarding school in Yorkshire. Her first attempts at writing as a teenager were Harry Potter fan fiction. She is a graduate of St Hilda's, Oxford, holds an MA in Victorian Literature, is completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan culture, and is the recipient of the UEA creative-writing programme's prestigious Curtis Brown Prize. The Quick is her first novel.
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- Popularidade
- #18,786
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 133
- ISBNs
- 24
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- 2
Some of the big criticisms of this novel are that it is slow, confusing, dense… these are all big selling points for me. I loved that it was almost painfully slow. I loved the luxurious writing. It was one of the most atmospheric books I’ve picked up this year. Yes, I agree, sometimes the way the story was told made it a little {or a lot} confusing, but by the end I wasn’t confused at all. I think the storytelling, being so layered, and at times detached, was intentional, to keep a tension and confusion IN the reading experience. The pace does pick up in the last 80-ish percent, and some people might say it makes for pacing issues, but it feels to me, again, intentional. The tension is continuously cranked up for the entirety of the novel, till it POPS and a rush of terrifying action sweeps you up. It was emotional in it’s unfurling, so satisfying after being nervous and unsettled the entire time. I loved that in the wake of this climax there is a tender and cautious closing, one that brings you back down to earth.
The woods in this novel are incredible. They are their own character, with demands and history, beauty and terrors. It’s set in late Summer/early Autumn and you can feel the chill that flows across the village from the wood. The sense of place is palpable. This is only amplified by the way the whole of the small village keeps the legends and happenings so close to their chest.
This is one of those reads that reminds you about the importance of storytelling and the ways that the stories we tell, are passed down and carry with them a power. It reminded me of growing up so far from the city and with my own wood just across the field and behind the barn. There was a magic then, one that you could feel in the stillness. So I gravitate towards stories like this, to remember what it was like to hold sacred, the soul of a forest and the secrets it keeps.
I want to pick up more from Lauren Owen in the future, her writing style really works for me. The vibes, perfection — and if your go in for an experience, as opposed to concise plot, I think you’ll get a lot out of this one.… (mais)