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[Nathan Ballingrud] ☆ North American Lake Monsters: Stories Í Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. North American Lake Monsters: Stories Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they're ruined; sometimes redeemed. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, or ex-wives, and sometimes they wear the faces we see in our mirrors. Even at their most monstrous.. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, and terrifyingly human. In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic an
| Title | : | North American Lake Monsters: Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1522672427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 409 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
"Nathan Ballingrud -- Memorable. Provocative. Unsettling." according to StretchYrBrains. It's simple -- this is just an amazing collection of well-written short stories. Memorable, unsettling, and provocative. Nathan Ballingrud is a writer of disturbing, nightmarish yet poignant observations on life and fear and marriage and family. His images get under your skin, his characters touch your heart, and I've found myself recalling images and moments from these stories long after I put the collection away and went on to other books. If you haven't given Nathan's work any of your time or attention yet, please consider. StephTKO said Creepy, moody, dark and eerie. Loved it.. All the usual horror suspects are represented in this collection of short stories, but this book is more unsettling than it is scary. The writing was beautiful and descriptive in a way that makes you feel as though you're watching a movie in your mind's eye. My favorite story was The Good Husband. I really enjoyed this collection and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.. "Great reimaginings of classic monsters and some new ones too" according to Daniel J. Owsen. Great reimaginings of classic monsters and some new ones too. Still thinking about some of these stories a long time later.
These people do some really terrible things. And yetdespite all the blame that’s flying around the landscape, and in the teeth of our contemporary hysteria about anything resembling reckless behaviorhe refuses to judge them. They are sad and unsettling, but always beautifully written with skillful and insightful prose. The transformations of Ballingrud’s characters echo these cataclysms. The lack of denouement, the uncertainty, is part of the fabric of the individual stories and of the collection as a whole. He breathes life into rough, blue-collar characters and places them in some of the best dark fiction being written today. And shattering each story is the luminous, the terrifying, the Lovecraftian otherness that reveals what it really feels like to be alive in this moment in time. Angels and vampires are placed next to lost white supremacist boys and burnt-out waitresses. It deals with loss, with the aftereffects of Katrina on a homeless alcoholic who's
Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves. Sometimes they're ruined; sometimes redeemed. Sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, brothers, or ex-wives, and sometimes they wear the faces we see in our mirrors. Even at their most monstrous.. They are always recognizably, wonderfully, and terrifyingly human. In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate a distinctly American landscape: The loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary life. The people in these storiesex-cons, single parents, unemployed laborers, kids seduced by extremismare stranded by life, driven to desperate acts by love and a longing for connection. They're also monster stories. Ballingrud's stories are love stories
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