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Sto caricando le informazioni... Desert Creatures (edizione 2022)di Kay Chronister (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 5 stars for the cover artwork. I am normally a fan of post-apocalypse/dystopian novels. Reading this, I felt like I had somehow missed big parts of the story. I had a lot of "why" and "what" questions. More description would have helped me visualize better what the author was trying to say. The story really meandered and I finished the book wondering what I was supposed to take away from it. The story of a young girl and an exiled priest in a mystical, altered, post-apocalyptic version of the American southwest, a place of wandering monstrosities, outcast saints, bizarre fruit that grows from bizarre cactus that grows from corpses, and a desert that wants to get inside you. I find it really hard to describe the feeling of that landscape and what Chrosnister does with it, the restrained way she creates a place of deep, dry strangeness and lets it work its way under your skin. Nor can I quite say why it works as effectively as it does. But it's certainly fascinating, in its own weird way. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Nine-year-old Magdala and her father have been exiled from their home; they flee through the harsh landscape of the American West, searching for refuge. As violence pursues them, they join a handful of survivors on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Las Vegas, where it is said that vigilante saints reside, bright with neon power. Magdala, born with a clubfoot, is going to be healed. But when faced with the strange horrors of the Sonoran Desert, one by one the pilgrims fall victim to a hideous sickness--leaving Magdala to fend for herself. After surviving for seven years on her own, Magdala is tired of waiting for her miracle. Magdala turns her gaze to Las Vegas once more, and this time, nothing will stop her. She recruits an exiled Vegas priest at gunpoint to serve as her guide, and the pair form a fragile alliance as they navigate the darkest and strangest reaches of the desert, on a journey that takes her further from salvation even as she nears the holy city. With ferocious imagination and poetic precision, Desert Creatures is a story of endurance at the expense of redemption. What compromise does survival require of a woman--and can she ever unlearn the instincts that have kept her alive?"--Book jacket flap. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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REVIEW: Desert Creatures is the story of Magdala, a young girl/young woman who is trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in the American southwest.
This book is trigger heavy and very dark. It’s also not a happy story, although it ends on a slightly upbeat note.
I can’t say that I loved this book, but it wasn’t terrible. It was very strange, and although I could follow the story, the jumps in time (there are two major ones) and the changes in viewpoint make it a little difficult to follow at spots. When I finished this book, I wasn’t sure exactly what the point of it was. I understood what was happening, but I’m not sure how it all fit in to a understandable story, especially as the ending seemed to go in a completely different direction in the last five pages.
Anyway, I didn’t hate this book, but I didn’t love it either. I would have liked to have finished it feeling a little clearer about the whole idea and purpose of it. ( )