Michael Botur
Auteur van Crimechurch
Werken van Michael Botur
Moneyland: Book One 1 exemplaar
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- Werken
- 9
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- 13
- Populariteit
- #774,335
- Waardering
- 4.4
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 6
There's sixteen stories in this collection, described in the blurb:
Counter-clockwise, self-delusional, violent, all added up to a very unusual, sometimes decidedly discomforting collection, although I will confess to a particular favourite being artistic terrorists:
Maybe she'll end up heading to the revolution in an Uber driven by the guy from The Flemish Bond:
Reeking of authenticity, tough as nails, littered with all the obscenities you're going to hear where the hard, would-be-hard, and hangers on congregate, there's something familiar, and shocking about the way that Botur puts these stories together. Set firmly in New Zealand, these would also translate to just about anywhere that there's societal tension - the have's and have not's, indigenous and non-indigenous, righteous and terminally bored, aspirationals and couldn't give a ... types. The writing style is a combination of observational and reportage, with the only slack given to the reader the occasional touches of humour that come like a lightening bolt from some very dark storm clouds.
Disconcertingly compulsive reading, I will confess to a slow troll through this collection and a return to a few to reconsider based on something further down in the collection. Botur says this about his short story collections:
A distinctive voice, HELL OF A THING could be just the something very different readers are looking for, with the proviso that we're talking dark and unrelenting, from a fascinating, and very exciting writer.… (meer)