ISBN-13: 9781770417328
Gishs prose is as sharp as a scalpel. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewGrey Dogis a bewitching tale of the horrors of spinsterhood in the early 1900s, with madness and magic threaded through every sentence.Heather ONeill, author ofWhen We Lost Our Heads and Lullabies for Little CriminalsA subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of womens historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rageThe year is 1901, and Ada Byrd spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past riddled with grief and shame has never seemed so far away.But then, Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something old and beastly which she calls Grey Dog is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory loosens, and Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, behaving erratically and pushing her newfound friends away. In the end, she is left with one question What is the real horror? The Grey Dog, the uncontainable power of female rage, or Ada herself?
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ISBN-13: 9781770417328
Gishs prose is as sharp as a scalpel. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewGrey Dogis a bewitching tale of the horrors of spinsterhood in the early 1900s, with madness and magic threaded through every sentence.Heather ONeill, author ofWhen We Lost Our Heads and Lullabies for Little CriminalsA subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of womens historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rageThe year is 1901, and Ada Byrd spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past riddled with grief and shame has never seemed so far away.But then, Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something old and beastly which she calls Grey Dog is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory loosens, and Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, behaving erratically and pushing her newfound friends away. In the end, she is left with one question What is the real horror? The Grey Dog, the uncontainable power of female rage, or Ada herself?
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