Matt Ruff

Lovecraft Country (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle Georgepublisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guideand his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhiteheir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestorsthey encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawnled by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Calebwhich has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of hisand the whole Turner clan'sdestruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racismthe terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062292087
• Artikelnr.: 43826851

Autorenporträt

Matt Ruff is the author of Lovecraft Country and its sequel, The Destroyer of Worlds, as well as 88 Names, Bad Monkeys, The Mirage, Set This House in Order, Fool on the Hill, and Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
1: LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Chapter
2: DREAMS OF THE WHICH HOUSE Chapter
3: ABDULLAH'S BOOK Chapter
4: HIPPOLYTA DISTURBS THE UNIVERSE Chapter
5: JEKYLL IN HYDE PARK Chapter
6: THE NARROW HOUSE Chapter
7: HORACE AND THE DEVIL DOLL Chapter
8: THE MARK OF CAIN Section
i: EPILOGUE Acknowledgements
ii: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Rezensionen

"Nonstop adventure that includes time-shifting, shape-shifting, and Lovecraft-like horrors ... Ruff, a cult favorite for his mind-bending fiction, vividly portrays racism as a horror worse than anything conceived by Lovecraft in this provocative, chimerical novel" Booklist (starred review)