- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (10 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852428953
- ISBN-13: 978-1852428952
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 471,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'Great art in nightmarish darkness' Michel Lebrun 'Jonquet manages to interweave various captors and captives into an immensely clever narrative web; the prose is sober and taut, the revelations effective, and the denouement utterly perverse' Rain Taxi 'Reads like an unholy collaboration between Sade and Sartre... Much like Poe's "tales of terror," Tarantula is a story that invites both respect and repulsion' Washington Post 'A poisoned bonbon of a novel... I was hooked on the third page' San Francisco Bay Area Reporter"
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Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic surgeon haunted by dirty secrets. He has an operating theatre in the basement of his chateau and keeps his partner Eve imprisoned in her bedroom, a room he has equipped with an intercom and 300-watt speakers through which he bellows orders. Eve is only allowed out to be paraded at cocktail parties and on the last Sunday of each month, when the couple visit a young woman in a mental asylum. Following these outings, Lafargue humiliates Eve by forcing her to perform lewd sexual acts with strangers while he watches through a one-way mirror. In alternating chapters, Jonquet introduces seemingly unrelated characters ? a criminal on the run after murdering a policeman, and an abducted young man who finds himself chained naked in a dark chamber, forced to endure all manner of physical torture at the hands of a mysterious stranger, whom he calls ?Mygale?, after a type of tropical spider. All of these characters are caught in a deceitful web, doomed to meet their fate.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
truly stunning end,
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This review is from: Tarantula (Paperback)
Jonquet's novel makes compulsive reading where you find yourself nearing an end you think cannot happen,it does! and i'm not giving away anything. A pimping plastic surgeon,vegetative madwoman and would be Kaspar Hauser along with some very dark humerous moments make for a nonstop roller ride!The writing is short and precise and gothic in every sense of the word.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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One Scary Spider,
By Lily Seltsam (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tarantula (Paperback)
The real tarantula is the relish with which Jonquet presents his deliciously deviant, Noir-like world, immersing you in quietly terrifying ideas which ensnare your imagination. His masterly manipulation of words constructs a plot concerned with the forced re-invention of a captive and is permeated by a air of sinister, psychologically thrilling unease. The gradual dismantling of an individual's nature and physical self, the speed at which free will and personality ebbs away, leaving only an empty shell that's vulnerable to re-creation at the hands of a Frankenstein - this is Jonquet's domain.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dark yet enlightening,
By Uncle Moley "reddit" (Haverhill, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tarantula (Paperback)
A short, direct thriller of a book. Simple narrative with a steady flow. Plotline very straightforward.
Very clever and superbly written although rather short. I guess good things come in small packages. Highly recommended if you prefer a short, snappy read that's a little on the 'dark' side. I will certainly keep an eye for more work by this promising author.
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