Robert Stallman (1) (1930–1980)
Autore di The Orphan
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Serie
Opere di Robert Stallman
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Stallman, Robert
- Nome legale
- Stallman, Robert Lester
- Data di nascita
- 1930-01-06
- Data di morte
- 1980-08-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Kankakee, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Attività lavorative
- Literary critic
professor of English at Western Michigan University
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 297
- Popolarità
- #78,942
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 21
- Lingue
- 3
Buckmaster has a terrible accident and, unable to seek help, ends up in a primal survival state. While he is out one day, from the corner of his eye he sees a mysterious beast. What can it be? He begins to obsess about the beast and tries to conquer his pain and track it down.
The language in this book is compelling. The description of Buckmaster dealing with the aftermath of his accident is excruciating; you feel his pain viscerally. In the latter part of the book, Kingsnorth changes his punctuation and the metre of his prose to effectively convey Buckmaster's slide into delirium. It's well done, and this novella is a worthy successor to The Wake.… (altro)