Boy in Darkness
by:
Mervyn Peake (author)
P.J. Lynch (author)
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1342549
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Pages no: 128
The story 'Boy in Darkness' was so strange and uneven, that I'm not sure what to make of it.It seems to be some kind of sarcastic religious allegory, but the satire doesn't seem to really fit into any specific recognizable pattern of what exactly it would be satirizing.The Lamb would certainly seem...
I read this story in a volume that includes a few others (see http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58583992). This review is limited to Boy in Darkness:This 90-page novella resulted in three pages of notes! It is so beautiful and so strange, and not even strange in the same way as the other Gormengh...
'tis the season...13 TALES OF TERROR: BOOK 10Boy in Darkness is a short story that takes place between the second and third books of the Gormenghast trilogy. ah, Gormenghast, one of my favorite things! but the horrific atmosphere and the ambiguously allegorical nature of this story make it quite a t...
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