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    Voice of Our Shadow

    By Jonathan Carroll

    3.5/5

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    A lonely expat encounters a mysterious American couple in Vienna in this “spare, taut little novel that uncoils into horror” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
     Even as a child, Joseph Lennox was happy to live in his older brother Ross’s shadow. Sadistic and charming, Ross was blossoming into a teenage rebel when one day, down by the train tracks, Joe inadvertently shoves him onto the third rail. After that fatal afternoon, Joe tried to blend into the shadows, fleeing to Austria as soon as he graduated college. Now he lives in Vienna, enjoying the cozy dullness of empty cafés and old movie theaters, doing his best to forget the day he watched his brother die. But death is not through with Joe Lennox. India and Paul Tate are the first Americans he has befriended since settling in Vienna, and it isn’t long before their budding friendship takes a strange turn, exposing a dark passion that Joe thought he left behind long ago, beside his brother’s electrocuted body and the hot third rail. This ebook contains an all-new introduction by Jonathan Carroll, as well as an exclusive illustrated biography of the author including rare images from his personal collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateJul 31, 2012
    ISBN9781453264959
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    Voice of Our Shadow
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    Jonathan Carroll

    Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children’s author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll’s writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists. Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost in Love (2008). His short stories have been collected in The Panic Hand (1995) and The Woman Who Married a Cloud (2012). He lives and writes in Vienna. 

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    • 3/5
      This may be my least favorite Jonathan Carroll book ever. The whole book seemed like it was getting really interesting, going in a really interesting direction (though ignoring the plot synopsis on the back), and then in the last five pages, he brings it around to a conclusion that makes very little sense in the context of the story. This was only his second book, but it reads more like an early effort than his first (Land of Laughs, which is actually one of my favorites) did.
    • 4/5
      [Three and 1/2 stars]Another swift and interesting read from Jonathan Carroll, with another self-centred, intelligent, not-entirely-sympathetic-but-all-too-human protagonist. Not as polished or creepy as Land of Laughs, but with the same facility for description and nuanced study of character and the permutations of relationships. But most of all, I'm actually still trying to digest that ending! I can't decide whether it's as abrupt and out of the blue as it feels (just as the character has no room to think in those crucial last three pages, neither does the reader), or if it makes sense thematically. A bit of both, I think, and the whole book now definitely requires a re-read.
    • 4/5
      Joe Lennox, a young American working in Vienna, still full of guilt over the death of his brother over a decade before, becomes friends with an older married couple, Paul and India Tate, who are also ex-pats. The story starts off like a non-genre novel and nothing even slightly impossible happens until the half-way point when it becomes an unusual ghost story. Towards the end, I was wondering how the story could ever be wrapped up in the last few pages, and then there was an unexpected twist and it was all over in two pages - a truly surprise ending!Unfortunately I took an instant dislike to the protagonist which I never got over. None of his relationships rang true, although this could well be explained by the surprise ending, or possibly due to those relationships being all in his mind. Could it be that Joe was mentally ill, and rather than being pursued by vengeful ghosts, he was torturing himself with his guilt over having caused his brother's death Thinking back over it, whenever he was with India and Paul, and later with Karen, they always did things by themselves, never with other friends, so no-one else Joe knew (not that he seems to have known many people) would ever have met them, so they could well have been figments of his imagination. Even the funeral was poorly attended and I didn't think he spoke to anyone else there either.
    • 3/5
      Well written, fast moving book. Classified as "Fantasy" on the spine; closer to horror. However, the horror is rather subtle, leading up to a surprise twist of an ending.
    • 4/5
      2nd book from Carroll. Not as strong as his first novel but any Carroll is worth reading.