Jack O'Connell (1959–2024)
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- Geburtstag
- 1959
- Todestag
- 2024-01-01
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Ausbildung
- College of the Holy Cross (BA ∙ 1981)
- Berufe
- fiction writer
teacher
magazine editor - Organisationen
- College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
Holy Cross Magazine (editor) - Agent
- Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates Inc.)
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Interjected within this story we are also treated to excerpts from Danny's favourite comic book, Limbo, which is about a troupe of freaks forced to flee from their circus home and follow the mystical instructions given to the chicken boy when he enters into Limbo while in the grip of a seizure. While fleeing a mad doctor they're trying to re-unite chicken boy with his long lost father believed to be on the far shores of Gehenna. I did mention that this book was weird, right?
The two narratives eventually join up to form a whole that speculates on consciousness and where we go when that is lost and the feelings of guilt and rage of those that get left behind. It also takes a look at how stories can have an effect on people's lives and not always for the betterment thereof. This book will not be everyone's cup of tea, the characters in the main are mostly unlikeable, there's quite a mishmash of elements in the storytelling linking gothic and noirish mystery that will not sit well with everyone. But for me, because I've enjoyed the previous work of the author it seems to have built nicely to this. I wouldn't recommend this as a first experience of his work though but I found it quite compelling.… (mehr)