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Carregando... The Show That Smells (2009)de Derek McCormack
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book is a delicious, delicious treat, full of surprises. I picked up The Show That Smells after reading the plot summary on Dennis Cooper’s blog (the book is published by Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series). I expected a delightful, quirky and enjoyably subversive summer read. I was completely unprepared for what this little book really is: startling, funny, full of unexpected twists and morsels of horrific glee. It is almost a novel in verse, and reading it is like watching an unusually wonderful contemporary silent film in novel form. It smells like Edward Gorey, Kathy Acker, Ed Wood, Guy Maddin, and Jean Genet all at once, but somehow doesn't feel derivative at all. This is a singular, unique work full of punning vampire queens, sexual slapstick, Lon Chaney and righteous queer carnie power. I can’t wait to read it again. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The Show That Smells is the most SHOCKING story ever shown on the silver screen! Itӳ also the tale of Jimmie, a country music singer dying of tuberculosis, and Carrie, his wife, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a devil who designs haute couture clothing! Elsa is a powerful Parisian dress designer, and a vampire. She wants to make Carrie look beautiful, smell beautiful'and then she wants to eat her! Will Carrie survive as her slave? Will Jimmie be cured? Starring a host of Hollywoodӳ brightest stars, including Coco Chanel, Lon Chaney and the Carter Family, The Show That Smells is a thrilling tale of hillbillies, high fashion, and horror! Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Like Maddin’s films, McCormack’s wicked little novels are a style unto themselves; unlike anything else on the literary landscape. The Show That Smells manages to evoke the atmosphere of a grainy, sepia-tinted early talkie, while at the same time being nearly impossible to place in any particular time period. Written like a film treatment, replete with a cast of characters that includes country singer Jimmie Rodgers, fashion doyenne Coco Chanel, horror film star Lon Chaney as well as the author himself, it centers around some of McCormack’s favorite themes - a troubled marriage, old school country music, vampirism and haute couture. All the action takes place in the fun house hall of mirrors, where the hypnotically repetitive prose manages to conjure the grotesque, yet campy, outlaw world of carnie life.
Oh, and it’s funny too. Pitch dark humor, to be sure, but funny as hell.
After reading The Haunted Hillbilly I was eager to give the rest of Derek McCormack’s work a try and this one did not disappoint. Wry, dry and pretty darned creepy.
That’s entertainment. ( )