- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: HarperEntertainment (5. Mai 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061020095
- ISBN-13: 978-0061020094
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,2 x 10,7 x 2,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (30 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 711.844 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Produktinformation |
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Poppy Z. Brite auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Poppy Z. Brite auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Amazon.com
"The man who wears the names of rivers knows that he is no longer like other men, that some part of his fearful work has changed him forever and he can never return to the simple, painless life he lived before.... The invaders are everywhere, and Their agents are everywhere.... In [his] dreams They walk the streets without fear, spreading the androgyne contagion, and the sky burns with the roaring engines of Their warships."
In a novel about a serial killer, the evocation of the killer's madness can make or break the book. In The Crow: The Lazarus Heart, Poppy Z. Brite delivers her usual complement of gay/transsexual pale-faced lovelies dressed in black Lycra and lace, giving just enough of a spin to their aesthetics that they are mildly entertaining to read about. But the way she puts the good gory meat into the story is through the character of a mesmerizing serial killer whose unique brand of paranoia serves as a sly commentary on Brite's own fiction. This is a short and relatively simple novel for Brite, but its narrative momentum never lapses: the plot structure hangs together better than in her longer, more ambitious works. It's overwritten in places--Brite wants to use two similes where one will do--but it's fun. And that's what horror is all about. --Fiona Webster -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Kurzbeschreibung
The Eternal One
At our human limits, when we've gone asfor as flesh and imagination can take us, wemeet the Eternal One. The Crow.
Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge"and" love, and are willing to go alI theway--and beyond.
The Lazarus Heart
Five, four, three, two ... Jared Poe counts thedays on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversialS&M photographer has been condemned to diefor killing his lover. He doesn't know who did it.Only that he didn't.
Can he clear his name and find the realkiller in time?
No. For this is no ordinary thriller. We are in thedark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel thecold shudder of Death; must hear the beating ofblack wings; must prowl the shadowy gothnetherworld of New Orleans, to prove he was nokiller when he died.
And find out what kind of killer he has become.
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Einleitungssatz
DOWN THROUGH THAT PART OF THE EVENING that is neither night nor day, the big black bird comes, finally, to the old cemetery in the old city on the river. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Auszug | Rückseite
DOWN THROUGH THAT PART OF THE EVENING that is neither night nor day, the big black bird comes, finally, to the old cemetery in the old city on the river. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Mehr entdecken
Wortanzeiger
Ausgewählte Seiten ansehenWortanzeiger
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Auszug | Rückseite
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Eine digitale Version dieses Buchs im Kindle-Shop verkaufen
Wenn Sie ein Verleger oder Autor sind und die digitalen Rechte an einem Buch haben, können Sie die digitale Version des Buchs in unserem Kindle-Shop verkaufen.
Weitere Informationen
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
::smiles:: I have just finished "The Crow:The Lazarus Heart" about 15 minutes ago and i wish i hadnt! this book is so good.. this is the first Poppy Z Brite book i ever read.. and it was great.. the unusual mix of the dark settings of new orleans and the surreality of the crow really grips your attention. The main character Jared Poe is so realistic.. this book is really twisted due to all the trannsexuals and homosexuals.. which are very rare components in books these days! Poppy.. if you are reading this i just wanna say.. thank you for making such a good book! and i am gonna read your others!.. the only downfall is that its only about 350 pages.. which is only about 2 days of reading for me.. .::sighs:: well.. everyone out there take my advice and get this book! :)
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
While I've seen that most people have said all that I have to say about this dilectable book, I'd like to make a few comments on the reviews... First as to the person who thought the serial killer was a 'cool' character: oh dear. Anyone who sympathies with a gay-basher is either truely sick or stupid, as is anyone who would champion a violently racist character, or any other -ist type character you care to name. As to it being a tie-in... so what? Poppy Z. Brite is using a goth archetype here... if you dismiss this as a 'tie-in' with the Crow comics, you might as well dismiss Lost Souls as an 'Interview' or 'Dracula' tie-in, and 'Drawing Blood' as a tie-in to 'Neuromancer' or 'The Haunting of Hill House. Tie-in is just an under-rated term for theme. The gore? yes, it's worse than swamp foetus/LS/Db, but LH is closer to Brite's style in Exquisite Corpse... with her more recent novels, i think she's trying to shock us again with characters that are EVEN MORE disgusting than Zillah or Trevor. And the length? well, true, it's short... but i think LH is closer to a long, crow-themed short story than it is to a short novel. Seen as ashort story, it's not one of her best, maybe- but it's Poppy Z. Brite, it's the Crow, and best of all, it's Beautiful Bisexual twins.
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
I must admit before you read this that I have been a HUGE Poppy Brite fan since reading "Lost Souls". I was, however, not really familiar "The Crow" beyond the limited notion that it came - I believe - from a comic book format; that Brandon Lee was killed during the making of a mediocre movie; and that a sequel was made with Vincent Perez. I was NOT aware that there was a series of books until I read an interview with PZB in which she stated she was writing a "Crow" book. In that interview, she JOKINGLY said that she was writing it cause - paraphrasing - they were paying her a boat load of money. That made me apprehensive about its quality. That apprehension was unwarranted. Brite has created in this book another boat load of memorable characters who find themselves at the mercy of their circumstances. What Brite manages to do in her novels (and in this one as well) is create people who - even though they may be very different from the reader - resonate love, desire, pain, dreams, and fears with which anyone can empathize. Her protagonists, while dark and flawed, are all - at heart - wonderful examples of literary Innocents. And her "villians" are terrifying because you know that they are not that far removed from the reality of the world. What I appreciate greatly about this book (and PZB's others) is that she does not spoon feed us as to why the "bad guys" have done what they've done. She gives us enough "explination" that we walk away satisfied AND permitted to extrapolate the motivations for ourselves. Brite also does not feel it necessary to give us a happy ending. Refreshing. All this is all wrapped up in a dark, scary, inviting and seductive package created by her understanding of the human condition. We are all different, Brite knows, but not that different. So, will "The Crow: Lazarus Heart" make me run out and buy every "Crow" book on the market? Nope. It simply will make me wait with great anticipation! for Poppy Brite's next work of fiction...one which I hope comes quickly.
Möchten Sie weitere Rezensionen zu diesem Artikel anzeigen?
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Die neuesten Kundenrezensionen
Not the best for Brite or The Crow
Being quite a fan of both Poppy Z. Brite and James O'Barr's series, The Crow; I thought that I had no chance of being disappointed by this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Mai 2000 von "stardwarf"
The Lazarus Heart was good, but didn't keep up with the Crow
Before I read this book I saw the Crow film for the first time and I was amazed. I watched the movie at least ten times before I returned it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Mai 2000 von Dean Pritchett
Crows Have Returned
The crow lazarus heart was a interesting spin off of the original Crow, I like this book because it delt with issues that could end up happening in the nearby future. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Tami Cooper
Enough Already!
I was extremely disappointed in this book. Brite's early work showed promise, but her writing's simply gotten pretentious, and the characters are a weak rehashing of themes she's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. April 2000 veröffentlicht
Better than the movie
If you've never seen The Crow on video...DON'T! Read this book first. Poppy paints a world of pain and revenge all around the reader. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Januar 2000 von child of the cuckoo
The Crow gets a spin in it's sexuallity.
This Crow book had a strange twist...the main character, Jared Poe,. . . is gay.Some of you may think that's strange and sorta changes thing (I admit I thought that at frist) but... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Dezember 1999 von Phantom Lord
WONDERFUL!
I absolutely loved this book! I was so engrossed in it, I could hardly put it down. I'm so infatuated with the crow series and with stories about gay people and reading and such,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Dezember 1999 von .ashe.
Poppy's 'The Crow: The Lazarus Heart' is her best work yet.
An oneirc and ecstatic rush of images, 'The Crow: The Lazarus Heart' ranks as one of Poppy's most assured and affirming works to date. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Brite Creates a Great New Addition to THE CROW Franchise
The was the first book I read by Poppy Z. Brite, and I do not regret it one bit. I recognized the name, but the main reason I bought it was that it was a The Crow novel that didnt... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Enjoyable- Brilliant in a twisted sense.
Brites combination of voodoo witchcraft and psychotic murder sets a vivid scene. The way she twisted the characters made the novel a definite must read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
