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In his psychologically disturbing third novel, Heim again focuses his obsidian vision on the relentlessly bleak Kansas prairie, where for years children have been disappearing with even greater frequency than they do from New York’s Grand Central Station. It’s a maniacal source of fascination for recently widowed, disease-ravaged Donna, who has created a shrine to the missing children, papering her home and truck with their images, filling scrapbooks with their newspaper clippings. When the corp...
In his psychologically disturbing third novel, Heim again focuses his obsidian vision on the relentlessly bleak Kansas prairie, where for years children have been disappearing with even greater frequency than they do from New York’s Grand Central Station. It’s a maniacal source of fascination for recently widowed, disease-ravaged Donna, who has created a shrine to the missing children, papering her home and truck with their images, filling scrapbooks with their newspaper clippings. When the corpse of the latest missing teenager is discovered, Donna summons her son Scott home from Manhattan to help her unravel the circumstances of the boy’s disappearance. Arriving to find his mother losing her battle with cancer, Scott, a gay crystal-meth addict, soon realizes that the only thing keeping his mother alive is her obsession—one, she reveals, that began with her own abduction as a child. As Scott gets drawn deeper into his mother’s fixation, the lines between reality and delusion become suspiciously and dangerously obscured. Книга «We Disappear» автора Скотт Хайм оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8 из 10.
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- Серия: P.S.
- ISBN (EAN): 9780061468971, 0061468975
- Языки: Английский
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- Год написания: 2008
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