Joel Lane The Blue Mask recensie, review en informatie van de Engelse roman uit 2003. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Blue Mask van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Joel Lane die verscheen in 2003. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Joel Lane The Blue Mask recensie en review
- “A novel of considerable power, its gritty drama of damage and disillusion well served by a hard-edged and often vigorously compelling prose style… an undeniably dark novel, yet its explorations move us towards a clearer view of the unsettling world we inhabit.” (Guardian)
- “Joel Lane’s writing has the quality of dark glass shattered.” (Joseph O’Neill)
- “A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant. A cartographer of Birmingham and the Black Country as necropolis and weird edgeland. A chronicler of subcultures and the urban esoteric. An intelligent radical and one of the best British post-war writers of horror and the weird. I would go to considerable lengths to acquire his books when he was alive, but, at last, his new and future readership won’t have to. Joel Lane will endure for as long as there is interest in visionary writers of quality.” (Adam Nevill)
The Blue Mask
- Auteur: Joel Lane (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 2003
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Influx Press
- Omvang: 260 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Engelse schrijver Joel Lane
Neil is a student at Birmingham University, living a typical life of gigs, clubs, politics, sex.
One night, after a row with his lover, Neil follows a stranger onto a canal towpath. The stranger turns on him and attacks, viciously carving up Neil’s face and leaving him mutilated beyond recognition.
Neil’s recovery is a journey through surgical reconstruction and sexual alienation. His attempt to track down his attacker becoming a search for his own hidden, destructive self; a search that leads him to question values he had always taken for granted.
First published in 2003 and long out-of-print, The Blue Mask is a hardcore emotional trip exploring the trauma of change and the nature of violence and of love.
Joel Lane was born in 1963 in Exeter, Deveon, England. He is the author of two novels, From Blue to Black and The Blue Mask; several short story collections, The Earth Wire, The Lost District, The Terrible Changes, Do Not Pass Go, Where Furnaces Burn, The Anniversary of Never and Scar City; a novella, The Witnesses Are Gone; and four volumes of poetry, The Edge of the Screen, Trouble in the Heartland, The Autumn Myth and Instinct. He edited three anthologies of short stories, Birmingham Noir (with Steve Bishop), Beneath the Ground and Never Again (with Allyson Bird). He won an Eric Gregory Award, two British Fantasy Awards and a World Fantasy Award. Born in Exeter in 1963, he lived most of his life in Birmingham, where he died on 26 November 2013.
