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Lädt ... Embertonvon Peter Norman
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This dark potpourri of weird ingredients makes Emberton an impossible book to classify. It is perhaps first and foremost a tale of gothic horror, with a contemporary digression into the field of medical terror. But it is also a slacker-style workplace satire, a crazy allegory, and a comic fantasy with a sub-plot involving a demure lexicographical romance. Emberton takes numerous risks, most of which pay off. It pokes fun both at creative and corporate types. Whether a writer should write for an audience or for his/herself is an old saw, but this book knows with certainty who its readers are. It offers an interesting mix of flavours: a salting of Spike Jones and Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich); elements of meta-horror such as House of Leaves; and shades of Roman Polanski and Ira Levin both together (Rosemary’s Baby) and alone (Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, Levin’s Stepford Wives). Auszeichnungen
Lance Blunt, despite the best efforts of his parents and teachers, has never been able to read. Even if he stares at a word until his corneas bleed, the letters remain indecipherable rubble. When an anonymous postcard offers him a job at Emberton Dictionary and suggests that there he will find the resolution to his "particular difficulty," he goes for an interview, hoping that someone at this prestigious repository of words can finally teach him. Behind the revolving doors of the Emberton Tower, Lance finds only more mysteries, like the pretty young etymologist who works there one day and is gone the next, and the company's private hospital hidden behind frosted glass on the third floor, not to mention what is possibly the world's worst company cafeteria. With the fate of human language itself at stake, Lance must confront what is hidden in the Tower and discover the cost of harnessing the power of words. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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