The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Alone with their bullying father on a vast estate, a sister and brother speak a language and inhabit a universe of their own making. When the old man commits suicide, they are forced into contact with the villagers and their cloak of romance and superstition quickly falls away to reveal shocking...
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Alone with their bullying father on a vast estate, a sister and brother speak a language and inhabit a universe of their own making. When the old man commits suicide, they are forced into contact with the villagers and their cloak of romance and superstition quickly falls away to reveal shocking truths. Balancing naiveté with carnality, Soucy employs his signature playfulness, plot twists, and fascination with guilt, cruelty, and violence in a narrative tour de force where nothing is quite what it seems.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780887847813 (0887847811)
Publish date: November 28th 2007
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Contemporary,
France,
Short Stories,
High School,
Canada
I was completely disappointed in this novel and not because there wasn't some good writing in it, there was. But my expectations were so high for it. Even a particular blurb on the cover announced this Soucy fellow, this philosopher, as being compared almost religiously to Samuel Beckett which got ...
An interesting experience. Quite a bit scary.***o experienta interesanta. chiar mai mult, oarecum terifianta.
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