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Ballad Of Ballard And Sandrine: An Eshort (2014)

by Peter Straub(Favorite Author)

2.56 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1299089674 (ISBN13: 9781299089679)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Anchor Books

review 1: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! I picked this novella up from the local library, thinking I might read it because of author Peter Straub's reputation as a horror writer (thinking Stephen King or Dean Koontz). Well, after only two pages I was HORRIFIED alright! This book is straight porn. I took it back to the library and suggested they NOT display it on the new book shelf, which is where I found it. I'm sure there is an audience out there for this novella (unfortunately!) but I'm also sure NONE of my friends fit into that audience. AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!
review 2: Winner of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction, this 96-page novella focuses on the characters of Ballard, an older gentleman, and his lover, the younger Sandrine, and their strange and unsettling sado-mas... moreochistic relationship. Told without regard to following time and place, the reader is slowly, disturbingly, shown a portrait of Ballard and Sandrine’s relationship across a series of cruises down the Amazon, with each section of the tale both hazily shedding more light on prior events and bringing to the forefront new questions.The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine may require more than one reading to begin to truly plumb its depths, but even one reading will leave little doubt that, in this psychological horror story, the ambiguity of not knowing is even more troubling and horrific than the knowing. less

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