Name: Universal Harvester von John Darnielle
SKU: 9781911344070
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Universal Harvester Zusammenfassung

Universal Harvester John Darnielle

From the cult author of Wolf in White Van comes a horror- infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town; Clerks meets Cormac McCarthy. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, and it gets him out of the house. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets, she has an odd complaint: 'There's something on it,' she says. Two days later, another customer brings back She's All That and complains that something is wrong: 'There's another movie on this tape.' Curious, Jeremy takes a look. And what he sees on the videos is so strange and disturbing that it propels him out of his comfortable routine and into a search for the tapes' creator. As the once-peaceful fields and barns of the Iowa landscape begin to seem sinister and threatening, Jeremy must come to terms with a truth that is as devastatingly sad as it is shocking.

Universal Harvester Bewertungen

'A slow-burn mystery/thriller whose characters are drawn together by an eerie discovery ... Darnielle adeptly juggles multiple stories that collide with chaotic consequences somewhere in the middle of nowhere.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Darnielle's second novel opens like a dark suspense story; his descriptions of the VHS scenes are written in a deadpan style to evoke maximum dread. But he ultimately pursues a softer and more nuanced exploration of family and loss.' Kirkus 'A captivating exploration of the vagaries of memory and inertia in middle America ... [Universal Harvester] serves as a stellar encore after the success of [Darnielle's] debut novel, Wolf in White Van ... Beneath the eerie gauze of this book, I felt an undercurrent of humanity and hope.' The Washington Post '[S]o wonderfully strange, almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy, that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle ... [But] Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book's quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down.' MTV News 'A major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction.' Los Angeles Times 'An eerie but lovingly detailed delineation of a landscape that, like all landscapes, is part external reality and part memory ... Darnielle understands that there are things writing can approach but must pass over in silence. He risks those silences; listen.' -- Colin Barett The Guardian

Über John Darnielle

John Darnielle's first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, and widely hailed as one of the best novels of the year. He is a writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR008227973

ISBN 13

9781911344070

ISBN 10

1911344072

Titel

Universal Harvester John Darnielle

Autor

John Darnielle

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Scribe Publications

Datum

2017-04-13

Anzahl der Seiten

224

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N/A

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