Universal Harvester - Brossura

John Darnielle

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1911344072 ISBN 13: 9781911344070

Casa editrice: Scribe UK, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Scribe UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911344072
• ISBN 13: 9781911344070
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224