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Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013)

door Joyce Carol Oates

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In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's brazen first wife visits one night, Mariana learns a terrible secret that could be a harbinger of doom for her marriage and very soul. In "So Near, Anytime, Always," shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming boy who offers this introverted girl the first sparks of young romance. Yet just as their relationship begins to blossom, Lizbeth realizes that beneath Desmond's perfect facade lies a dark soul that could wreak havoc on Lizbeth and her loved ones. In "The Execution," spoiled college student Bart Hansen has planned the perfect, brutal crime to get back at his parents for their years of condescension. Yet what he didn't plan for is a mother whose love is more resilient than he could have ever imagined, who threatens to derail his carefully laid-out plans. And in "The Flat-Bed," childhood trauma has prevented Cecelia from enjoying the pleasures of physical intimacy with a man, but when she finally meets the love of her life, Cecelia realizes that finding intimacy will mean coming face-to-face with the despicable man from her past who robbed her of her innocence years ago.--From publisher's description.… (meer)
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Joyce Carol Oates ha un modo di scrivere che torce le budella. Soprattutto se si è stati coinvolti in una relazione tossica e/o si è una donna. Di solito non viene associata all'horror come lo è uno Stephen King, ma secondo me i due autori sono per lo meno "cugini" da questo punto di vista.

Il titolo è ispirato al primo racconto, quasi una citazione a Rebecca, dove però la prima moglie è viva e vegeta e il marito è dichiaratamente un despota inquietante, più che "solo" un uomo in posizione di superiorità che "salva" la fanciulla giovane e inesperta (e non fosse stato per BytheBook non avrei notato che Rebecca sia a sua volta una citazione/rivisitazione di Jane Eyere, ma meno candido e ottimista).

Seguono la storia disturbante di un'adolescente con un corteggiatore troppo insistente, quella di un giovane narcisista e del suo rapporto tossico con i genitori, nei loro classici ruoli di padre-distante e madre-indulgente, e alla fine il "sogno bagnato" di ogni uomo che sogna di vendicare una donzella dai traumi del passato e aiutarla a "guarire" (sì, in quel senso) nel presente.

Si parla di abusi, di malattia mentale sottovalutata, ma soprattutto Shirley cerca di aprirci una finestra sul punto di vista delle "vittime", con le quali spesso fatichiamo a empatizzare: "Perché non è scappata? Perché non ha detto nulla a nessuno? Perché lo ha sposato sapendo com'era?" etc. etc. ( )
  JaqJaq | Jan 7, 2022 |
Not a good match for me. Not dark enough, or the dark is too everyday/realistic with no suspense. No alt-reality elements. Slow. I had another book on my shelves by her but will pull that off.
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Needed an audiobook and grabbed this off the shelf based on author name recognition but I've never read anything by her.

Evil Eye - 2* the desc gives a decent summary. "a young woman has recently become the fourth wife of a highly demanding man. When his first wife comes to stay with them, she warns the new bride that her husband is insane, and that she must find a way to protect herself." I didn't enjoy it. The story went along fine and I enjoyed the author's writing style but the actual story, meh.

So Near Anytime Always 2* - young girl without many friends, never had a boyfriend is befriended by a new boy in town. I think she is 15, he is 22. Are they boyfriend, girlfriend? She is not sure but he sure does come around a lot. Turns into angry stalking then the reveal of who he is.

The Execution DNF - just not into it.

The Flatbed - didn't bother with ( )
  Corinne2020 | Aug 20, 2021 |
Hauntingly good. ( )
  Isabella_Massardo | Mar 30, 2020 |
As the sub-title says, these are four novellas of love gone wrong. The first novella, “Evil Eye”, focuses on a nazar, which is a talisman used to ward off the evil eye. Mariana is a shy, timid young woman who is the newly wedded fourth wife of Austin Mohr. Austin is 25 years old than Mariana and his adoration of her seems to be wearing off and his impatience growing. He announces that his first wife, Ines, will be coming to visit. Austin and Ines have a terrible secret that Ines wishes to confide to Mariana. Can their marriage survive this revelation?

The second novella, “So Near Anytime Always”, involves another shy young woman, Lizbeth, this one a teenager who falls for a new young man in the area, Desmond. But Desmond has a dark side that Lizbeth isn’t at first aware of.

In “The Execution”, college student Bert Hansen has taken too many wrong turns during his life. He blames his father for never being supportive and now his mother also seems to have given up on him. Bert plots his evil revenge on both his hated father and his loving mother.

The last novella is “The Flatbed”. Cecilia has never been able to have a normal sexual relationship due to the abuse she sustained as a child. The new man in her life thinks revenge will give the help that Cecilia needs to overcome her issues.

Joyce Carol Oates has long been a favorite author of mine. She’s an expert at pulling her readers in right at the start of her stories and then gradually leading them up to the point where you start to realize that something is horribly wrong. She would have been such a wonderful writer for the old TV series, “The Twilight Zone”. I had chills through all four of these tales and highly recommend them. ( )
  hubblegal | Jan 22, 2017 |
Quattro i racconti riuniti in questo volume e un unico filo conduttore in chiave neo gotica: lo sguardo malevolo, cattivo, insidioso declinato nella forme più disparate. C'è il malocchio della prima novella, un ciondolo tra l'amuleto e il trofeo esoterico attorno al quale si muovono i componenti di una strana famiglia con una prima moglie (che rievoca la Rebecca di Daphne Du Maurier) e una quarta. C'è l'ossessivo sguardo di uno giovane stalker e la memoria visiva di una vittima nei confronti del suo assassino. Anche il tema dell'amore è presente in tutti e quattro i lavori, amore eccessivo o malato.
La Oates trae spunti dalla famiglia americana non importa se di provincia o metropolitana, sono le aberrazioni della nostra epoca che portano alla follia, alla depravazione, alla violenza. Padri o figli malati, adolescenti violenti, donne condannate ad essere vittime ci parlano da un mondo che ha perduto del tutto la normalità in cui il male irrompe all'improvviso. ( )
  cometahalley | Jan 16, 2017 |
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If any explanation exists for why and how love goes wrong, Oates implies that it lies in the fragility of our sense of self. It is the lack of a secure identity, the belief that one is “worthless” without love, that allows for others’ appropriative manipulation and haunting. The women remain in thrall to their lovers because they think, like Mariana, “without this man, I am nothing,” or take pride that their abuser “singled [them] out,” or feel, like LizBeth, even when faced with the reality of her boyfriend’s malevolence: “He loved me — he would not have hurt me.”
toegevoegd door ozzer | bewerkBoston Globe, Priscilla Gilman (Aug 31, 2013)
 

» Andere auteurs toevoegen (2 mogelijk)

AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Joyce Carol Oatesprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Bell, Luci ChristianVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Marston, TamaraVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Patton, ChrisVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Postel, DonnaVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's brazen first wife visits one night, Mariana learns a terrible secret that could be a harbinger of doom for her marriage and very soul. In "So Near, Anytime, Always," shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming boy who offers this introverted girl the first sparks of young romance. Yet just as their relationship begins to blossom, Lizbeth realizes that beneath Desmond's perfect facade lies a dark soul that could wreak havoc on Lizbeth and her loved ones. In "The Execution," spoiled college student Bart Hansen has planned the perfect, brutal crime to get back at his parents for their years of condescension. Yet what he didn't plan for is a mother whose love is more resilient than he could have ever imagined, who threatens to derail his carefully laid-out plans. And in "The Flat-Bed," childhood trauma has prevented Cecelia from enjoying the pleasures of physical intimacy with a man, but when she finally meets the love of her life, Cecelia realizes that finding intimacy will mean coming face-to-face with the despicable man from her past who robbed her of her innocence years ago.--From publisher's description.

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