UID:
kobvindex_ZLB35105765
Ausgabe:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9798765072059
Inhalt:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare? Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous creepypastas, Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear."
Inhalt:
Biographisches: "Monica Ojeda is the author of the novels La desfiguracion Silva, Nefando, and Mandibula, as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras and Historia de la leche." Biographisches: "Sarah Booker is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 1, 2021 In Ecuadorian writer Ojeda’s delectable English-language debut, two classmates bond at an all-girls’ Catholic high school over a made-up mythology. The ever-inventive Annelise designs a deity (“a rhinestone-encrusted firefly”) to entertain her group of friends, among them Fernanda. The two become inseparable and then fall dangerously in love, as Ojeda plays with the narrative device of the double—one of several tropes from the “creepypastas” of internet-horror culture. Their literature teacher, Clara Lopez Valverde, embodies her own horror story: she’s haunted by the ghost of her mother and descends into madness. A lifelong sufferer of an extreme anxiety disorder—“a panic attack is like waking up burning in water, falling upward, freezing in a fire, walking against yourself, your flesh solid and your bones liquid”—Clara will end up kidnapping one of her students for her own occult reason. There are echoes of Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson at play, but the vision is ultimately Ojeda’s own—delicious in how it seduces and disturbs the reader as the girls rely on horror both as entertainment and as a way of staving off the actual terrors of growing up. This is creepy good fun." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 28, 2023 In her English-language debut, Ecuadorian writer Ojeda offers a novel about the horrors of adolescence. Each day after school, Annelise and Fernanda meet their friends in an abandoned building where they perform rituals and dares to a god of Annelise's imagining. Meanwhile, their new literature teacher, Miss Clara, teeters on the edge of sanity as she struggles with deep-seated anxiety. The two disparate groups collide in inevitable and destructive ways. Saturated in symbolism and themes of motherhood and repulsion for the female body, Ojeda's haunting, dense prose tears into the dualities of womanhood. Listeners familiar with the trends of anonymous internet horror will appreciate the references to those kinds of stories throughout this novel and its nods to pop culture. Narrator Victoria Villarreal draws in listeners with her atmospheric voice, delivering the prose with hushed horror as the girls tell one another scary stories in the abandoned building. The visceral, often graphic language and scenes are alive and raw in her delivery. VERDICT This experimental horror novel is not for the faint of heart. For those brave enough to take it on, however, it offers a terrifying look into the trauma of womanhood and desire. --Ashlynne WatsonCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
Anmerkung:
Auszeichnungen: National Book Foundation:National Book Award Finalist
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Hörbuch
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