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5.0 out of 5 stars The Earth Wire -- bleak urban snapshots, 19 Sep 2001

By	msketchley@cableinet.co.uk (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews

Joel Lane does not write pleasant escapist fiction. Joel Lane does not write comfortable, easy-read stories to curl up with on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon while sipping warm, sweet tea. Joel Lane writes modern urban horror. But this is not the horror of cannibalism or torture or the terrors of the undead rising from the cemetery; it is the horror that permeates everyday life in modern society, the horror of living on the fringes of humanity, scraping by in a wasteland of rotting, mouldy flats on grey, rodent-infested council estates. A landscape of pimps, drugs, cigarettes and drink, of bitter souls clutching at the possibility of hope.

The Earth Wire and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of stark texts from one of Britain's finest modern authors. The reader is often made uncomfortable by situations too close to home to ignore, jarred into emotional response by Lane's ability to pick out the smallest details and give them almost disproportionate significance within the wider context of the story; a single sentence can often give a paragraph of fiction a disturbing personal resonance. Highly recommended for those who can face the truth.

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