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Carregando... Disturbed by Her Song (edição: 2010)de Tanith Lee (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Black Eyed Susan A hotel chambermaid develops an obsession with the possibly-ghostly figure of a lovely woman, seen wandering the halls. In the face of her fascination, her ambiguous and exploitative relationships with her coworkers and employers fade into unimportance. The Kiss A brief piece about a woman who tells a sentimental lie to avoid a gay-bashing. Old-fashioned, but unfortunately the issues it brings up poignantly are all-too-current. Ne Que V'on Desir A man has a brief affair on a train, but his perceptions of what has happened are abruptly changed by hearsay. The x's Are Not Kisses When her girlfriend leaves on a trip to see an old friend, a woman is consumed with a burning jealousy, fanned into suicidal flames by the discovery of some frankly erotic letters found in her private office. Ends on a sweet and love-affirming note - but the protagonist here is simply too weak and annoying for me to have any sympathy. Alexandrians A strange, short piece about an unloved young boy, the son of a prostitute, and his first awareness of his own sexuality. Death and the Maiden A woman's interest is caught by the elegant Vera Blaze, the society wife of the renowned and scandalous Pre-Raphaelite painter John Blaze. Unfortunately for her, Vera requests that she seduce her daughter, a bizarrely troubled young woman who harbors an unhealthy obsession with her ethically repugnant father. This one reminded me of Elizabeth Hand... Fleurs en Hiver Short-short about a brief fascination with a woman glimpsed in a restaurant. The Crow Echoes of fairytales resound in this short piece about two men, sharing a troubled relationship, who meet an old man in the woods. Disturbed by her Song An actress spends her life in love with a colleague who never notices, let alone reciprocates, her feelings. Like in so many of Lee's pieces, she does an excellent job of elevating sad - even pathetic - human emotions and behaviors to the realm of the mythic. I suppose I should mention the conceit of this book, which is that the stories are supposedly from the point of view, not of 'Tanith Lee' but of her characters, Esther Garber and Judas Garbah. Personally, I find it wholly unnecessary: these stories are clearly by Lee and no one else, and do not differ from her other work in any notable way. That's just fine, since I love Lee's writing. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Disturbed By Her Song collects the work of Esther Garber & her half-brother Judas Garbah, the mysterious family of writers that Tanith Lee has been channeling for the past few years. Possibly autobiographical, frequently erotic and darkly surreal, their fiction takes place in a variety of eras and places, from Egypt in the 1940s, to England in the grip of the Pre-Raphaelites, to gaslit Paris. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Speculative Fiction."-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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