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Bezig met laden... Coyote (editie 2015)door Colin Winnette (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Coyote is a novella that seems to riff on the noir detective genre but offers few useful clues or even interviews about the crime that are standard in that often tired literary form. Strangely, even the nameless detective just orbits the main action instead of being the main character. The crime--the disappearance of a child--seems to only mildly bother her parents and because of the title, one wonders if a coyote, an image that is evoked early, took her. The unnamed narrator is the victim’s mother, whose intense voice reveals the dark story in fragments, effectively building suspense. She is in an unloving marriage and seems to perceive that she is also slowly losing her daughter. She periodically reveals unrelated facts about her daughter, also suggesting that she is having trouble coping with what society expects from her in the situation. Winnette’s approach of revealing small details of this fractured marriage in unusual ways and the narrator’s unusual bits of confession gives the story a strong sense of horror and tension. Despite these revelations, the ending is shocking and entirely unexpected. One may need to read this this unusual and dark novella twice to fully appreciate its subtlety and craft, but its shortness makes that quite reasonable. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy--after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident--is the story of Coyote. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Coyote is the story of the splintering of a family after the disappearance of their daughter. It is fragmented and dark and confusing and painful. But Winnette manages to settle his writing somewhere between prose and poetry, making it impossible to stop reading. ( )