Books by Brian Evenson
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review 1: Very disturbing and unsettling. At times I really wanted to stop reading, but felt that I couldn't. Evenson is skilled at making it palatable and at times even humorous; the fact that his tone is to a certain extent distant helps you get through the gory parts, and the dialogue ...
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review 1: Not as bowled over by this collection as I was by The Wavering Knife or Altmann's Tongue, but still full of great stuff. There's a handful of stories in here - "Girls in Tents" and the opening story - that deal with the psychological horror of very domestic situations, namely bei...
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review 1: The prose was well-written and engaging, but the protagonist was barely likable, and I found the ending upsetting, not just because things ended badly in general (it's a post-apocalyptic novel, you've got to expect that), but because several questions were left unanswered. Still...