And from there, I slipped back to the house—which, like the horses, seemed in a sort of suspended state: I knew it was changing, that something strange was happening, I was sure of that at least, but I didn’t know how or what the changes meant, and I couldn’t make anyone else see them. Reviewed by Karen Munro. In the title story of Brian Evenson’s collection A Collapse of Horses, the unnamed narrator is obsessed by his confusion about two seemingly unrelated things: the house in which he convalesces from a workplace accident, and a group of horses he’s seen lying down in a nearby paddock. Does the house have three bedrooms or four? · A Collapse of Horses is a master class in unnerving storytelling; seventeen short narratives that range from horror to science fiction and from surrealism to noir. The variety is outstanding, the writing is superb, but what makes this collection deserving of attention is how Evenson manages to achieve a perfect balance between what is on the page and what is left www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
A Collapse Of Horses|Brian Evenson, Factory and industrial management Volume 2, pt. 1|Books Group, HRM Practices and Employee Commitment: Australian Aquatic Theme Parks|Silvia Nelson, Deserts of England|Sean Jennett. A Collapse of Horses: A Collection of Stories - Kindle edition by Evenson, Brian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Collapse of Horses: A Collection of Stories. Title: A Collapse of Horses Author: Brian Evenson Summary: The narrator informs the reader that he is in all likelihood, the last survivor of his family and that no one could have survived the fire. He then goes on to explain what happened. He first introduces an experience of wandering the countryside and coming upon four horses lying upon the.
In A Collapse of Horses, Evenson’s stories, either vaguely or directly, contain homages to some of horror’s most well-known writers. The first and last pieces in the collection, for instance, immediately create an atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy-esque violence and carnage. A Collapse of Horses is a master class in unnerving storytelling; seventeen short narratives that range from horror to science fiction and from surrealism to noir. The variety is outstanding, the writing is superb, but what makes this collection deserving of attention is how Evenson manages to achieve a perfect balance between what is on the page and what is left out. "Evenson's latest book, A Collapse of Horses, reveals that his unsettling talents have grown subtler and stronger—between seventeen stories featuring unsolvable mind-games, drugged-out cults, and space-station claustrophobia, all rendered in Evenson's unmistakable prose, which is capable of suggesting both grounded realism and jittery paranoia, often at the same time Evenson excels at bringing different worlds and genres together, and his gift for making contradictory versions of.
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