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| Original Title: | The Drowning Girl |
| ISBN: | 0451464168 (ISBN13: 9780451464163) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Providence, Rhode Island(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2012), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2013), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2013), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2013) Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2012), James Tiptree Jr. Award (2012) |
CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Paperback | Pages: 332 pages Rating: 3.72 | 4173 Users | 648 Reviews
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India Morgan Phelps--Imp to her friends--is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, because she is convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her very identity. Struggling with her perception of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about an encounter with a vicious siren, or a helpless wolf that came to her as a feral girl, or neither of these things but something far, far stranger...
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| Title | : | The Drowning Girl |
| Author | : | CaitlÃn R. Kiernan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2012 by Roc |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. LGBT. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy. Health. Mental Health |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 4173 Users | 648 ReviewsPiece Of Books The Drowning Girl
By the purest definition of the rating, THE DROWNING GIRL is indisputably 5bats. A few chapters in, I was already reading passages aloud to friends. I already knew who would be receiving my own copy, budgeting for who I could send others. This had less to do with any enjoyment of the book than a sense of haunting that perfectly mirrors the main characters own experiences. Does anyone else see what I see? Am I crazy, am I alone? THE DROWNING GIRL introduces concepts and stories and images thatDisappointing twaddle.A promising start, but it doesn't build or develop in any way. It reads like a work developed during a Creative Writing course; pretentious and self-conscious. As for the reams and reams of "this is what it's really like to have a mental illness" stream-of-consciousness passages; oh puh-lease. Give me Janet Frame any day.
Kiernan's last novel The Red Tree impressed me mightily but ultimately did not win me over. I have been vindicated in my decision to give her another go. All the technical expertise, authenticity and stunning command over a deep and complex plot that was displayed in The Red Tree is out in force again but in The Drowning Girl Kiernan also brings something extra (a more likeable protagonist? a more compelling mythos? a more satisfying ending? all of this?) that made this novel one I could love as
The weird tale can be difficult to sustain through the course of an entire novel, which is why it's often most successful in short form. How does an author maintain that strangeness, that otherworldliness, throughout 200-300 pages? Well, Kiernan's figured it out, though I doubt anyone could ever copy her technique here without looking like a complete rip-off artist. She uses an entirely unreliable narrator, one who is schizophrenic and constantly lies, who's experiencing parallel timelines --
The weird tale can be difficult to sustain through the course of an entire novel, which is why it's often most successful in short form. How does an author maintain that strangeness, that otherworldliness, throughout 200-300 pages? Well, Kiernan's figured it out, though I doubt anyone could ever copy her technique here without looking like a complete rip-off artist. She uses an entirely unreliable narrator, one who is schizophrenic and constantly lies, who's experiencing parallel timelines --
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Probably because I enjoyed discussing aspects of the book in a group setting more than I enjoyed the actual book. So what sort of book is it?Well it might be a ghost story. It may have some horror elements. It might be factual - or it might just be true... or both or neither. Do I sound like a crazy person? That's because this book is told in the first person by someone who considers themselves insane - though her psychiatrist doesn't like using
5 StarsCaitlin Kiernan is simply one of the best, the most original, and gifted writers in fiction today. She writes deep and dark horror stories and challenges you the reader as well as her many amazing protagonists to join her on a trip down the rabbit hole. Can you tell she is a real favorite of mine? I have read most of Kiernans work and have been taken in by her works, ever since I read The Red Tree, my first endeavor into the mysterious mind of Caitlin Kiernan.In this book, The Drowning
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