Light Boxes
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241144954 (0241144957)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
This one was on sale at my favorite bookstore, and after reading the blurb I decided to pick up the cute little volume and have a go. The story is about a town perpetually stuck in February, who is also a character in the book. The surreal mood of the book confused me a little bit because I wasn't s...
I am biased. I love a fascinating story with daring storytelling methods that allow the reader to interpret it any way s/he sees fit. While reading Light Boxes, I saw it as a personal allegory for mental illness, but I tend to insert my own struggles into good fiction, so that is my fault. It's not ...
I can't resist a surrealist fairytale. And it doesn't get any more surreal than the death of flight, brought on by an endless personified winter who lives in the clouds with a girl who smells of honey and smoke, torturing the folk of a small town while kidnapping its children. Obviously this can onl...
Thaddeus Lowe, lives with his wife, Selah, and their daughter, Bianca, in a small town that appears to be unnamed. For some reason an individual called February has decreed that it should remain winter for all time, so for the last three hundred days this demiurge has imposed a perpetual February u...
The epigraph to this book is a quote by Joseph Wood Krutch and reads: "The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." As a resident of Wisconsin reading this in the middle of February, I chuckled to myself in a knowing way as I cracked this book op...
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