The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099464396 (009946439X)
Publish date: April 6th 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Gothic,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature
Hercules Barefoot was born in 1813 on the same night and in the same house (of ill-repute) as the love of his life, Henriette. Neither have blessed existences, although Henriette’s mother at least survives childbirth, but they become inseparable. It’s a story about love, overcoming disability, pre...
Well... the writing was a bit too expressionistic for me, a bit crumbled and overlapping. Still the premise was rather good...
I was sort of wavering between three and four stars for this one. It is so much better than it sounds like and wonderfully erudite, but just a tad too simplistic when it comes to the emotional thread of the story. Despite that, I couldn't help loving it. It's very aware of the freak fiction traditio...
12 years ago
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