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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Lovecraft in Flatbush, well also Harlem and other NYC areas, 1920s. This deftly provides all that's needed to understand how the choice between Cthulhu and the status quo might fall out in Cthulhu's favor. ( ) This was almost everything I could ask for in a Lovecraft retelling/inspired story. I loved Tom's character and felt for his sorrow. I loved the horror and dark justice towards the end. My major gripe about this was having to read from the cop's POV - I think I could've easily read another 200 pages of this if it meant more of Tom. I'm really eager to seek out more Lovecraft retellings along this vein. This is Victor LaValle's attempt to reconcile his obvious love of H.P. Lovecraft's weird fiction with the writer's frequently unpalatable racism. Here LaValle inverts the story of [b:The Horror at Red Hook|2582189|The Horror at Red Hook|H.P. Lovecraft|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1266939978s/2582189.jpg|2598040], wherein illegal immigrants in Brooklyn are corralled into a cultist's ceremony to open an interdimensional portal. The racist implication is that the many ethnicities of New York City are barely different then hideous aliens in their own right. LaValle reframes the story through the perspective of one of Lovecraft's "swarthy multitudes." Injecting racial empathy into a Lovecraft story is an admirable challenge but I suspect it is a futile one. This is the trouble I have with almost all fanfiction. The universe an author creates is a reflection of who they are; the hopes, fears, prejudices, and life story of an author combine into an unconscious soup from which stories are ladled out. Many complain when a new writer in a TV show makes a beloved character behave inconsistently, but most fan works do this with an entire setting. Lovecraft was able to conjure so effectively his paranoid and hateful cosmos because he was a fundamentally paranoid and hateful person. The Ballad of Black Tom's attempts at reconciling this universe with a compassionate narrator results in bathetic tonal shifts. It's a real mess. This isn't to say that the cosmic horror genre is inseparable from a reactionary mode, only that it requires a unique setting to do so. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eyes of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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