first set
On the Sunday I went, even though I was sober, to the cemetery.
The book
At the beginning of Kurt Morgan comes over and is actually pretty normal. The 35-year-old unsuccessful writer, moved from New York back to his mother in a small town in the North, after he has lost his Job as a Journalist. Here he will have to pay no rent, but he helps his mother to write her memoirs.
Kurt is the first-person narrator in the novel, “Graveyard Love,” the New York-based author Scott eagle mountain. With logical arguments the main character is presented to the readers as a reasonable guy. But increasingly, he is reminiscent of one or other of the protagonists in the works of Noir legend Jim Thompson (“The Killer Inside Me”) – as this lulling Kurt us a bit of a. And we can no longer find his Actions incomprehensible, if it is normal.
is your son your life, fits of the mother, of course. She is very critical, and urging you to make Kurt Forward. The often has trouble with the stories of his mother, for example, when it comes to your early sexual experiences. With walks in the cemetery opposite the home of his mother, he distracts himself. As he noticed a red-haired woman who regularly visits a tomb. The woman fascinated him, he begins to imagine what it would be like to meet you.
An earlier love story has apparently taken a bad end. Kurt buys a telescope, to get the Redhead out of his room in their cemetery to visit observe. He begins her to make. And he learns Catherine finally know.
“I hoped to be able to Catherine convey, how much I wanted to, that they felt treated well, while she had the gag in my mouth.”
It is a bizarre triangle of the people – a weak man; as a result his mother, who has him under the Thumb; the mysterious Stranger – who are all obsessed with their own obsessions. The relationship between son and mother is reminiscent of Norman Bates in “Psycho”. Despite the cheerful tone, the first-person narrator’s home tries to be tricky about his dark sides in a bid to conceal, the story will be more and more creepy, and, ultimately, violent.
Where Kurt says it’s not evil: “The sheets I used for my gag was made of silk, top quality, and I bought it specifically for this purpose. I was hoping to be able to Catherine convey, how much I wanted to, that they felt treated well, while she had the gag in my mouth.”
“Graveyard Love” is a relatively short, dark novel about voyeurism, mental disorders, obsession and violence, in the Scott eagle mountain refined with elements of Noir, Thriller, horror story and psychological Thriller plays.
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author
Scott eagle mountain, born in 1962, grew up in the New York city borough of the Bronx. In 1988, he published his first Short-Story collection “The Hunting Heart”. He lived for some time in the Caribbean, of which his first crime novel “Spider and Flies” (2012) demonstrates, the plays on Martinique. After “Jungle Horse” (2014) is “Graveyard Love” (2016), his third novel and the first to be translated into German. 2018 appeared in the US, the historical Thriller “Jack Waters”. Eagle mountain now lives with his family as a writer as well as literary and film critic based in Brooklyn. In Bryant Park in Manhattan, where in the summer an open-air cinema, will moderate the film discussion series, “Word for Word Reel Talks”.
Scott eagle mountain: “Graveyard Love” (Original: “Graveyard Love”, Broken River Books, El Paso, TX in 2016). Translated from English by Jürgen citizens. ars vivendi, Cadolzburg 2019. 222 p., approx. 27 Fr.
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Created: 30.10.2019, 11:23 PM
