- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (20 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575602813
- ISBN-13: 978-0575602816
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,077,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jonathan Carroll's narratives are constructed like those innocuous-seeming rooms in Doom or Quake, bright and tranquil until the player reaches a hidden trigger-line and swarming horrors erupt from the walls. With Carroll, the trigger- lines are spiritual. A glittering career, an exciting project and a blissful new sexual relationship are generally bad signs, and the narrator has all three. Sam Bayer is a successful writer just emerging from inspirational drought to tackle a real-life story, the mystery of the small-town teenage sexpot whose drowned body he was first to find, when only 15. Was the right man convicted? Meanwhile Bayer's latest lady-love, an obsessive fan of his work, helps, hinders and also scares him with glimpses of her chequered past. An apparent serial killer with a strong interest in the old murder sends Bayer cheerful communications--"Hi Sam!"--uncannily monitoring his daily life and progress. Stalking elusive truths through poignant or baleful childhood memories, our hero feels his life tilting into nightmare. Many Carroll novels twist at this stage into dazzling reinterpretations that invoke magic or madness; here the ultimate surprise is more conventional, even predictable. Not quite top-flight Carroll, but still an unusual and haunting thriller. --David Langford
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Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his Great Book, and he chooses as his subject the death of a teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova. Found floating in a lake, the town of Crane's View never felt the same after her death. As Sam uncovers the past it becomes a jolt into the reality of the present.
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Format:Paperback
A young boy finds the body of murdered girl floating in the lake, where he is playing with his friend. Twenty years later, Sam Bayer has grown up to be a successful author, he returns to his home town seeking inspiration, bringing back old memories of the girl he found; although a man was arrested for the murder, tried and imprisoned, Sam decides to find the truth about her story. At the same time he is drawn into an affair with a beautiful but disturbed fan with the improbable name of Veronica Lake. In uncovering the past, his everyday life becomes sinister and his life and those he loves are in danger from an unknown and deranged individual.
This novel is a fair departure for Carroll, away from the strange surreal, magical realities he normally creates, however Kissing The Beehive retains the menacing atmosphere of his previous novels. The story is engaging and exciting, although I was rather hoping for it to step sideways into the bizarre, as his other stories do.
This novel is a fair departure for Carroll, away from the strange surreal, magical realities he normally creates, however Kissing The Beehive retains the menacing atmosphere of his previous novels. The story is engaging and exciting, although I was rather hoping for it to step sideways into the bizarre, as his other stories do.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It's my opinion that Jonathan Carroll is the greatest novelist that I've ever had the pleasure to read. This is his first 'mainsteam' novel and it is reminisent of David Lynch's Twin Peaks - but not quite as weird. I would recommend that first-time Caroll readers read this book to ease them into Carroll's writing. Readers should then progress to his true classics, such as 'Sleeping in Flame' and 'From the Teeth of Angels'. I can't wait until 'Marriage of Sticks' - out in May.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There is a great expolaration of relationships within this story as Sam - our potagonist- attempts to reveal the true happenings behind a murder in his past. The story is more than a murder mystery, as confusion and obsession are revealed. The story is attentively gripping as the tale unfolds but sadly there is alot of building up and a lot of falling down at the climax, if u don't like a hollywood ending u will not be disapointed..
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