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Fugue State (2009)

by Brian Evenson(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1566892252 (ISBN13: 9781566892254)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Coffee House Press

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 being a kid who has to act like an adult and be in charge. "Ninety Over Ninety" struck me as too insider-y and more than a little bitter, but I'm still thinking about it.
review 2: Fugue State is another worthwhile collection of Evenson’s brilliant, angular, and disconcerting takes on fiction. He uses short fiction in way very few contemporaries do, Ligotti definitely comes to mind though. Beckett’s desolate spaces and comic narrators, Poe’s diseased and obsessive minds, the suffoc... moreating traps of Kafka are Evenson’s peers, but his collection of mutilations, plagues, amnesiacs, liminal spaces, and bizarre rituals are distinctly his own voice. Zak Sally the cartoonist and former bass player of the wonderful band Low provides some stark little illustrations and one full on collaboration with Evenson. less

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