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    Visits from the Drowned Girl
    Visits from the Drowned Girl
    Visits from the Drowned Girl
    Audiobook9 hours

    Visits from the Drowned Girl

    Written by Steven Sherrill

    Narrated by Holter Graham

    3/5

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    About this audiobook

    Visits from the Drowned Girl is a tale about the immovable path of destiny, and a brilliantly inventive, masterful exploration of the corrosive nature of secrecy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 7, 2004
    ISBN9781598872033
    Visits from the Drowned Girl
    Author

    Steven Sherrill

    Steven Sherrill is a graduate of UNC Charlotte and holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The recipient of a NEA Fellowship for Fiction, he has published four novels and one book of poetry. His debut novel, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, was published in the UK and translated into eight languages. Neil Gaiman selected it as one of six audio books to launch “Neil Gaiman Presents” for Audible.com. A prolific painter and nascent musician, Sherrill is now a professor of English & Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona.

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    • 3/5
      Visits From the Drowned Girl is the follow-up to another favourite of mine, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break (a deserving favourite, if only for that wonderful title!) Sherrill is a wonderful writer and he writes the kind of books that defy description. I must admit Minotaur, for its sheer bravery in so seamlessly blending the very different genres of contemporary lit and Greek myth, remains my favourite, but this story of a man who witnesses (at long distance) a young woman's suicide and sets about finding out who she is and what led to her death is an intriguing story told in Sherrill's own very individual style and I'd highly recommend it.
    • 2/5
      This book is like a train wreck - morbidly fascinating but deeply disturbing. The morally ambivalent main character, Benny, repairs electrical towers as a second job and witnesses the suicide of a young girl. Propelled by the mystery she's left behind ( a number of pretentious original films made for college assignments ) Benny sets out to uncover as much as he can about the girl's life and death.The book itself seems intent on making the reader squirm. The characters are unsavory, especially Benny himself, who starts out relate-able but soon degenerates into a truly monstrous person. There is truly, only one nice person in the whole book, and Benny devotes himself to publicly embarrassing her and making her life miserable. The ending left much to be desired. Though the writing itself was descriptive and eloquent, I can't quite figure out why anyone would wish to render such a foul and nauseating set of scenes in such flawless detail. Gross and pointless.
    • 3/5
      Benny Poteat has seen a lot of things, but when he sees a young woman drown herself, it becomes increasingly clear that Benny doesn't know how to deal with the things he's seen. Benny starts out as quite a likeable guy but gradually degenerates into a monster.

      It was hard for me to imagine exactly how or why Benny arrived at the things he did or, more importantly, the things he didn't do, and so his transformation over the novel left me somewhat perplexed and not as involved as I might have been. However, the novel is populated with such quirky and richly detailed characters, events, and settings, that it was still a worthwhile, if puzzling, read.
    • 4/5
      My love of this book unfortunately rapidly fell away in the last few chapters where it seemed to peter out to a 'nothing' of an ending, leaving me SO disappointed because I was easily going to be giving it 5 stars until then. Steven Sherrill's writing is just beautiful, it really wraps itself around you and makes you grab onto his words, but then, about three quarters into the book, it just seems to change and characters that you've found yourself endeared to suddenly seem to act out of character entirely (and coldly)- it almost feels as if the author has become bored and has given up. I didn't see the point of the ending - it seemed wishy washy and didn't really say anything.My 4 star rating is probably being generous considering the latter part of the book, but my strong love for the majority of it has overridden the negatives.I'll be interested to read the author's other works.
    • 2/5
      I found this book very unpleasant to read. The POV character, a professional tower climber who at the beginning of the book witnesses a girl videotape her own suicide by drowning, is simply unlikeable in every possible way. He becomes obsessed with the drowned girl, and steals her things without reporting her death to the police. Then he tracks down her family using some very basic detective work, and for the next several months watches their anguish at not knowing what has happened to their daughter and sister. He dates the dead girl’s midget sister and plays one cruel, anonymous prank after another on her, never showing the slightest bit of feeling for her. The portrait of small-town North Carolina life given in this novel is bleak and hopeless, a series of pointless tragedies and random cruelties, where every human being lacks even common decency. There is no reason to like these people, their world or this book.
    • 4/5
      Probably not as good as The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break, but worth reading.