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| Original Title: | Song for the Unraveling of the World |
| ISBN: | 1566895480 (ISBN13: 9781566895484) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction (Ray Bradbury Prize) (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2019) |
Brian Evenson
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.91 | 958 Users | 157 Reviews
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A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses--whether we know it or not.
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| Title | : | Song for the Unraveling of the World |
| Author | : | Brian Evenson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | June 11th 2019 by Coffee House Press |
| Categories | : | Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Weird Fiction. Adult. Science Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 958 Users | 157 ReviewsAssess About Books Song for the Unraveling of the World
Extremely cool nightmares!it felt like hard work just staying with & getting through this one. I had such high hopes, but I just dont get it
I never like short story books. I liked this one. Good eerie, weird dark? short stories. Trigger Warnings is fun to read out loud.
Really, this book is a litmus test for how one looks at the world. Is it a cold and unforgiving hellscape? Or is there a cosmic justice keeping a balance between good and evil? Are we on our own? Or is there a god looking over us?This is a bleak collection of stories. Any horror fanin any of its subgenresshould pick it up immediately. Evenson provides us with a master class in subtlety and how understating the horror often creates a much scarier premise. Good luck trying to unlock the mysteries
Read half of this during my Beijing 10 hour layover and was like uuh OK and then I set it down and left it. I'm so sorry, Evenson, I respect you as a figurehead but was unable to connect with this book. If I can be frank, and I don't know if I should, one work I could use to describe this collection would be "easy." It made me realize how easy it could actually be to produce work like this. Sorry, again, it's just interesting. Makes me think I can become as good of a writer.These stories feel
3.5 starsThis was a bit more uneven than I've come to expect from Brian Evenson, with a surfeit of rather unengaging and surprisingly graceless stories at the beginning of the volume. I'll admit that I was almost ready to give up on the book when I came upon "The Second Door". I immediately remembered this as being an impressive story I'd already read in Looming Low:Volume I and Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 and wasn't surprised that I liked it just as much on a third reading. After that,
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