Lovecraft Country
The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasyChicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes...
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The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasyChicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road tri
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062292087 (0062292080)
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Lovecraft Country was a book mainly comprised of elements that I don’t particularly enjoy. It was set in a time period (the 50’s) that means nothing to me. One of the main themes of the book (racism) is something that I can understand intellectually, but not really emotionally. The chapters were als...
Lovecraft Country is a collection of inter-connected stories about an extended African American family in the mid to late 1940's and their encounters with things not of this world, notably sorcerers, a gateway to another world, and a haunted house.Holy. Shit. Lovecraft Country is an early front-ru...