One Bloody Thing After Another
Jackie collectionne les arbres liés à ses souvenirs, mais quand l’un d’eux disparaît, sa colère explose.
Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie's mother passed away into the long good night. When one of them gets cut down, Jackie doesn't know what to do but she doesn't let that stop her. She picks up the biggest rock she can carry and puts it through the window of a car. Smash. She intends to leave before the police arrive, but they're early.
Ann is Jackie's best friend, but she's got problems of her own. Her mother is chained up in the basement. How do you bring that up in casual conversation? "Oh, sorry I've been so distant, Jackie. My mother has more teeth than she's supposed to, and she won't eat anything that's already dead." Ann and her sister Margaret don't have much of a choice here. Their mother needs to be fed. It isn't easy but this is family. It's not supposed to be easy. It'll be okay as long as Margaret and Ann still have each other.
Add in a cantankerous old man, his powerfully stupid dog, a headless ghost, a lesbian crush and a few unsettling visits from Jackie's own dead mother, and you'll find that One Bloody Thing After Another is a different sort of horror novel from the ones you're used to. It's as sad and funny as it is frightening, and it is as much about the way families rely on each other as it is about blood being drooled on the carpet. Though, to be honest, there is a lot of blood being drooled on the carpet.
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Ann is Jackie's best friend, but she's got problems of her own. Her mother is chained up in the basement. How do you bring that up in casual conversation? "Oh, sorry I've been so distant, Jackie. My mother has more teeth than she's supposed to, and she won't eat anything that's already dead." Ann and her sister Margaret don't have much of a choice here. Their mother needs to be fed. It isn't easy but this is family. It's not supposed to be easy. It'll be okay as long as Margaret and Ann still have each other.
Add in a cantankerous old man, his powerfully stupid dog, a headless ghost, a lesbian crush and a few unsettling visits from Jackie's own dead mother, and you'll find that One Bloody Thing After Another is a different sort of horror novel from the ones you're used to. It's as sad and funny as it is frightening, and it is as much about the way families rely on each other as it is about blood being drooled on the carpet. Though, to be honest, there is a lot of blood being drooled on the carpet.
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Ce roman offre une plongée unique dans l’horreur quotidienne, où le surnaturel côtoie la banalité des relations familiales et amoureuses. Joey Comeau y explore avec brio la frontière entre le grotesque et l’émouvant, créant une atmosphère à la fois drôle, sombre et profondément humaine. Parfait pour ceux qui cherchent une histoire d’horreur qui sort des sentiers battus.
Le livre aborde des thèmes comme la famille dysfonctionnelle, l’amitié, la perte, la violence et l’acceptation de soi. Il mêle aussi humour noir, horreur et une réflexion sur la manière dont on gère le deuil et les secrets inavouables.
Ce roman s’adresse aux amateurs d’horreur littéraire, de récits gothiques modernes et de drames familiaux. Il séduira aussi les lecteurs qui aiment les histoires à la fois sombres et pleines d’espoir, avec des personnages complexes et attachants.
Vous pourrez interroger le smartbook sur les motivations des personnages, les symboles récurrents (comme les arbres ou les fantômes), ou encore sur les choix narratifs de l’auteur. Posez-lui aussi des questions sur les thèmes de la famille, de la violence ou de l’humour noir pour approfondir votre lecture.
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horreur littéraire
roman gothique moderne
famille dysfonctionnelle
amitié
deuil
humour noir
fantômes
violence
secrets familiaux
adolescence
relations amoureuses
mère monstrueuse
surnaturel
toronto
canada
joey comeau
sam cutler
chris eaton
ecw press
roman court
drame familial
gore
émotions
mémoire
arbres symboliques
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