Declare Out Of Books The Drowning Girl
| Title | : | The Drowning Girl |
| Author | : | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2012 by Roc |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. LGBT. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy. Health. Mental Health |
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Paperback | Pages: 332 pages Rating: 3.72 | 4173 Users | 648 Reviews
Narration Conducive To Books The Drowning Girl
India Morgan Phelps--Imp to her friends--is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, because she is convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her very identity.Struggling with her perception of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about an encounter with a vicious siren, or a helpless wolf that came to her as a feral girl, or neither of these things but something far, far stranger...
Details Books Concering The Drowning Girl
| Original Title: | The Drowning Girl |
| ISBN: | 0451464168 (ISBN13: 9780451464163) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Providence, Rhode Island(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2012), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2013), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2013), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2013) Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2012), James Tiptree Jr. Award (2012) |
Rating Out Of Books The Drowning Girl
Ratings: 3.72 From 4173 Users | 648 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books The Drowning Girl
Disappointing twaddle.A promising start, but it doesn't build or develop in any way. It reads like a work developed during a Creative Writing course; pretentious and self-conscious. As for the reams and reams of "this is what it's really like to have a mental illness" stream-of-consciousness passages; oh puh-lease. Give me Janet Frame any day.I finished this last night. I did not really enjoy it, though I think it a well done novel and well-researched. I googled a lot of the names and such and surprised how much was real. I do like novels that cause me to do this. I'd consider it a PsychoHorror as well as an exploration of schizophrenia with obsessive tendencies. From a medical point of view it is a good description of thought disorders, especially those with confused realitypsychosis. Perhaps the most telling part was when Imp went
The quirkiness of this story grabbed my interest right from the start. About 20% into the book it started to get on my nerves. After about 50% or so, I started to hate it. There may be a bit of genius in here somewhere that I lack the intelligence or creativity to appreciate but in any case I was disappointed.If this is worthy of any award this year, the Bram Stoker is the wrong venue. It has some dark elements but doesn't quite fit the horror genre.
The weird tale can be difficult to sustain through the course of an entire novel, which is why it's often most successful in short form. How does an author maintain that strangeness, that otherworldliness, throughout 200-300 pages? Well, Kiernan's figured it out, though I doubt anyone could ever copy her technique here without looking like a complete rip-off artist. She uses an entirely unreliable narrator, one who is schizophrenic and constantly lies, who's experiencing parallel timelines --
The Drowning Girl is a hypnotic, beautiful ghost story Im going to write a ghost story now set in Providence, Rhode Island. In New England, in Lovecraft country. The narrator, India Morgan Phelps, Imp, is a young artist diagnosed with disorganized schizophrenia and who (in parenthesis) claims to be a distant relative to Lovecraft, but she doesnt much care for his stories His prose is too florid and I find his stories silly , but he was right about that thing about mans greatest and oldest
I was a little wary of this book at first, I don't like the subgenre of "is there a ghost or am I crazy" as it can portray mental health in a really messed up light. But THE DROWNING GIRL is not asking that question at all. It simply asks what the impact of the supernatural is on a person who has mental health issues. Our protagonist, Imp, writes in the first person and chooses to tell her own story, with full awareness of the places in her story where she is not entirely reliable and where her
5 StarsCaitlin Kiernan is simply one of the best, the most original, and gifted writers in fiction today. She writes deep and dark horror stories and challenges you the reader as well as her many amazing protagonists to join her on a trip down the rabbit hole. Can you tell she is a real favorite of mine? I have read most of Kiernans work and have been taken in by her works, ever since I read The Red Tree, my first endeavor into the mysterious mind of Caitlin Kiernan.In this book, The Drowning
0 Comments