by Elizabeth Hand
An incredibly strange book which deserves a detailed review
I was so freaked out by this book that I refused to read any of Elizabeth Hand's other books for years. Fortunately someone eventually made me read Waking the Moon, and I got over my Handiphobia, but I don't think I'll be revisiting this one. Cold, cruel, manipulative, sadistic - yeah, the real wo...
dense, poetic, sensual, at times almost dizzyingly arty in its depiction of a post-apocalyptic washington d.c. i much prefer elizabeth hand's trippy trilogy (of which Winterlong is the first, and the best) to her later attempts at stylish modern gothic, which came across as half-baked to me. written...
This is the first book I read by Elizabeth Hand. I was totally blindsided by it. Her vision of the end of the world as we know it and what takes its place reads like a waking dream. All sorts of strange things inhibit these pages. Intelligent Chimps, autustic prophets, decadent, intellectual societ...