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Carregando... The Color of Nightde Madison Smartt Bell
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Wondering around the desert at night with a rifle, being possessed by pagan gods, ritual sex murder - ya’ know feel-good-summer-time stuff - I knew this book was up my alley.The Color of Night is actually a sophisticated and literate What If... story. What if two Manson girls got away unnoticed and lived on divergent paths until 9/11. One segued back into normalcy. While the other... yeah, that whole in the desert with a gun deal. The psychic wound of 9/11 tosses our gun-toting hermit back into the mental world she inhabited during her time with the Summer of “Love” Debased cultus. (Something's wrong here, in a lot of ways.) So then she seeks her long forgotten other half. This has best ending of any novel I have read since Drop City.Though not pitch perfect, the book does link the collective scars of the Manson murders and 9/11 as turning points in popular consciousness. With equal dollops of sex, horror, ancient deities, and Americana, The Color of Night is everything I hoped Neil Gaiman's post-comics fiction would have become instead of the children's stories which have made him famous.Devil's Dream just got bumped to the top of my to-read list. ( ) I tagged this as "Dystopian Fiction" because it deals with alienation, personal and societal. Mae is a dealer in a casino in Las Vegas. A loner both by choice and by the necessity, she is hiding a past link to a Manson-like '80s cult. After seeing on TV another former cult member and past lover fleeing the toppling World Trade towers, she gets her phone number and starts calling. I'll stop there with plot details. A quiet beginning builds toward increasing violence that reminded me of Bell's Soldier's Joy, an earlier novel I really liked.
A cold, dark novel—but a worthy one.
Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure anarchy, thrills at the destruction. These images recall memories of a childhood marked by unthinkable abuse, of her drift into a cult that committed the most shocking crime of the '60s, of her life since then as a feral and wary outsider, caught in a swirl of events at once personal, political, mythic. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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