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Indlæser... A Pretty Mouth (udgave 2012)af Molly Tanzer
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A Pretty Mouth by Molly Tanzer This collection is a reverse chronological exploration of the nefarious Calipash family, a bloodline cursed to depravity, transformation, and dissolution. It is also a masterful exercise in parody, as it lampoons Gothic horror, novels of manners, Lovecraft, and the history of Roman Britain. The title story, a novella of twists and turns set in a private school in faux-English civil war Oxford, and it genderbends, challenges reader assumption, and sexes things up a lot. I drive it hard to describe exactly what I looked about this book, but I looked it a lot. The writing is pitch-perfect, adopting the voice and style of each period cleverly, and it twists the tries of the styles in just the right way to keep things interesting. A real pleasure! Highly recommended! A tasty stew of Lovecraft, Wodehouse, gothic, and 19th century erotica influences, this set of connected stories and a novella follows the Calipash line from the Victorian era back to the Romans. The title novella features historical figures like John Wilmot. Although it is always weird, Tanzer shows a great sense of humor, too. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"'Re-animator' meets 'The secret history' in this tale of sex and science. Henry Milliner thinks his days of being the school pariah are over forever when he attracts the attention of Wadham College's coolest Fellow Commoner, St John Clement, the Lord Calipash. St John is everything Henry isn't: brilliant, graceful, rich, universally respected. And as if that wasn't enough, St John is also the leader of the Blithe Company, the clique of Natural Philosophy majors who rule Wadham with style. But when being St John's prote?ge? ends up becoming a weirder experience than Henry anticipated -- and the Blithe Company doesn't quite turn out to be the decadent, debauched crew he dreamed of -- Henry has some big decisions to make. Should he beg the forgiveness of his only friend, nai?ve underclassman John Wilmot, and Earl of Rochester, or should he ride it out with St John and try to come out on top?" --
"With this collection, Molly Tanzer has become one of my favorite new authors. Her love of Victorian literature is present, and combined with some modern elements the result is something quite special. The humor is spot-on in every story, and balanced so well with the macabre elements that it brings to mind a perverse hybrid of HP Lovecraft and Edward Gorey." -- Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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A weird but enjoyable collection of interconnected stories that go backwards in time, the Calipash twins always a feature. ( )