Violet LeVoit
Paperback | Pages: 154 pages Rating: 3.29 | 664 Users | 41 Reviews
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| Title | : | I Miss The World |
| Author | : | Violet LeVoit |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 154 pages |
| Published | : | November 18th 2016 by King Shot Press |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Crime |
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"LeVoit's work exists at the center of a glowing nexus where fever dream punk rock poetry collides with raw emotion and vertiginous talent." --Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack CitySet in and around Hollywood Forever Cemetery, this tense and mind-bending noir is Violet LeVoit at her finest: an unnerving, unpredictable and comic journey through deep trauma and glitzy nostalgic insanity.
"I Miss The World is a gut-punch, throat-punch, heart- punch of a novel. LeVoit knows how to seduce you with a lullaby when she's going for blood." --Danger Slater, author of Puppet Skin
"It is masterful, it is beautiful and awful, it is sweepingly and breathtakingly artistic, the impact of seeing some great natural wonder or work of art for the first time." --The Horror Fiction Review
"Revelatory, gut-punching, brilliantly anarchic perfection." --J David Osborne, author of Black Gum
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| ISBN: | 0997251840 (ISBN13: 9780997251845) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.29 From 664 Users | 41 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books I Miss The World
"I am not bad. I am good but hurt. That is often mistaken for bad. But it's not true. And there is nothing I have done that cannot be forgiven."This book. I don't even know where to start. I was so unsure about what was going on for most of I Miss the World, and then I loved when everything tied together. This is a unique story, and I enjoyed it.Most of this book is focused on a dialogue between two characters. I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this, but it was done really well. SomeThis was great!Thing is: I was worried going in. I knew that the majority of the book (in fact, Id say 98% of it) took place in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and consisted of a conversation between the two main characters. I was like, HOW is this going to hold my interest. In the age of YouTube and Twitter and Vine, how can a sustained DIALOGUE possibly entertain me?Dude, this book is more than just entertaining. It is profound.Violet LeVoit knows where the veins are, and she knows how to
If you have read this book, then it has already worked its dark magic on you. If you haven't read it yet, start now. Go into the cemetery blindfolded and pay attention to the dialogue between siblings. Something has happened, but you have no idea what lies ahead of you. The pace is fast as reality untangles. Like the woman on page one, you are standing on a precipice. The truth is in the falling.
So Im scrolling through Facebook as you do and I come across a post from Nick Mamatas where hes provided a quote for Violet LeVoits new novel Scarstruck and I think too myself who the fuck is Violet LeVoit and why havent I heard of her? I do a little digging (i.e. I googled her name) and discover that shes an author of Bizzaro fiction, a genre Ive always been aware of but have never bothered with. On reflection, I find that strange because Ive always been a fan of horror, loved my splatterpunk
This short novel totally blew my mind. An absolute masterclass in dialogue (I can think of no better comparison than Elmore Leonard), a lot of the book unravels the past of two siblings through their reminiscences of family and faded Hollywood glamour, hints of darkness dropped sparingly like breadcrumbs to see you through the forest. And then there's a gut-punch change of pace before a breathless race to the end that left me crushed. No horror is turned away from here, in the end.I had this on
An awesome gutpunch of a book. I read it all in one sitting and I advise to carve time out yourself and read it all at once--easily doable, with the book packing an awful lot of intensity in 124 pages. I knew it was set in Forest Lawn cemetery in Hollywood, so I purchased this based on good review and the expected old movie references. The book did not disappoint--and from the disturbing start, to the lengthy brother and sister monologues in the cemetery--to the slow dawning realization that
If you have read this book, then it has already worked its dark magic on you. If you haven't read it yet, start now. Go into the cemetery blindfolded and pay attention to the dialogue between siblings. Something has happened, but you have no idea what lies ahead of you. The pace is fast as reality untangles. Like the woman on page one, you are standing on a precipice. The truth is in the falling.
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