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Disappointing work from the French Canadian author of Kamouraska and Children of the Black Sabbath - as a thin slice of gothic psycho-sexual mystery is padded out with literary devices and limp red herrings. The narrative begins in 1982, with the interior monologue of old Rev. Nicholas Jones in a Gaspe village - recalling his barren wife's long-ago suicide, stewing in vaguely repressed sexuality, and making heavily mysterious references to what happened (along with that suicide) back in '36. Then a series of 1936 monologues fill in that fateful summer for Rev. Jones' large extended family. His sexy, misogynistic nephew Stevens Brown, age 20 back then, returning to Griffin Creek after five years of vagabondage (he fled from an abusive father), tells about wary reunions with assorted relatives: a sexual, ultimately cruel liaison with his older, widowed cousin Maureen; his teasing seduction of teenage cousins Nora and Olivia. ("Strip them of their cheap finery, reduce them to mere desire, moist and hot, then stand them in a row, a single bleating flock. Maureen, little Nora, Olivia too. . .") Next the narration is taken over by 15-year-old Nora, who wrestles with her lust for Stevens - "I'm on fire" - while also noting the lecherous attentions of her minister-uncle Nicholas and Stevens' young retarded brother Percy. Percy, age 15 in 1936, then soliloquizes - recalling the August disappearance of both his young-girl-cousins and indulging in a great deal of implausible prose-poetry. And finally, after the discovery of Nora's fish-eaten, drowned body, the truth about what happened emerges - in a monologue by Olivia's ghost ("Pure spirit of water, my body left behind on sandbanks and masses of salt"), followed by old Stevens' verbosely lyrical 1982 confession. As in her previous novels, Hebert's prose here is some-times darkly stylish, vividly evoking sexual tension and family/village psychopathology. Unfortunately, however, the central mystery is wearisomely belabored;the final revelations are thoroughly unsurprising; and too often the tricks with language and shifting narration seem like little more than hollow affectation. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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On a hot summer night in 1936, Olivia and Nora Atkins go for a stroll along the beach in Gaspé. They never return. When the body of one of them is washed ashore days later, the tiny community of Griffin Creek is electrified. The teenagers have been murdered. But by whom? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Disappointing work from the French Canadian author of Kamouraska and Children of the Black Sabbath - as a thin slice of gothic psycho-sexual mystery is padded out with literary devices and limp red herrings. The narrative begins in 1982, with the interior monologue of old Rev. Nicholas Jones in a Gaspe village - recalling his barren wife's long-ago suicide, stewing in vaguely repressed sexuality, and making heavily mysterious references to what happened (along with that suicide) back in '36. Then a series of 1936 monologues fill in that fateful summer for Rev. Jones' large extended family. His sexy, misogynistic nephew Stevens Brown, age 20 back then, returning to Griffin Creek after five years of vagabondage (he fled from an abusive father), tells about wary reunions with assorted relatives: a sexual, ultimately cruel liaison with his older, widowed cousin Maureen; his teasing seduction of teenage cousins Nora and Olivia. ("Strip them of their cheap finery, reduce them to mere desire, moist and hot, then stand them in a row, a single bleating flock. Maureen, little Nora, Olivia too. . .") Next the narration is taken over by 15-year-old Nora, who wrestles with her lust for Stevens - "I'm on fire" - while also noting the lecherous attentions of her minister-uncle Nicholas and Stevens' young retarded brother Percy. Percy, age 15 in 1936, then soliloquizes - recalling the August disappearance of both his young-girl-cousins and indulging in a great deal of implausible prose-poetry. And finally, after the discovery of Nora's fish-eaten, drowned body, the truth about what happened emerges - in a monologue by Olivia's ghost ("Pure spirit of water, my body left behind on sandbanks and masses of salt"), followed by old Stevens' verbosely lyrical 1982 confession. As in her previous novels, Hebert's prose here is some-times darkly stylish, vividly evoking sexual tension and family/village psychopathology. Unfortunately, however, the central mystery is wearisomely belabored;the final revelations are thoroughly unsurprising; and too often the tricks with language and shifting narration seem like little more than hollow affectation. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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On a hot summer night in 1936, Olivia and Nora Atkins go for a stroll along the beach in Gaspé. They never return. When the body of one of them is washed ashore days later, the tiny community of Griffin Creek is electrified. The teenagers have been murdered. But by whom? --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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