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Evenson lost his teaching post at Brigham Young University because his writing was too implicitly critical of the Mormon Church. Continuing to mine the violent history of the religion, he makes a murder committed in 1902 by a grandson of Mormon prophet Brigham Young one of the central plot strands of his latest novel. Raised in a troubled but strict religious home, teenage misfit Rudd gradually pulls away from his oppressive mother, inventing a new family and new world for himself. When he is found at the scene of a double murder with little memory of the preceding events, he forms a unique bond with 19-year-old Lyndi, the daughter of the victims. The two, barely recovered from the gruesome events, start to lose track of time and to call each other by the names of the perpetrators of the 1902 murder. The Mormon angle is not what is most interesting about this uncompromising novel; instead, it's the convincing portrayal of a disturbed young man pushed to the breaking point by social isolation and religious extremism. Joanne Wilkinson
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Compelling Thriller
18. Januar 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Evenson takes us deep into the increasingly demented mind of young Rudd and into the inner workings of the Mormon Church. The passage regarding the marriage of Rudd and Lyndi was especially ghoulish, and, apparently too accurate for many Mormons. Carefully crafted and tautly written, we descend into madness with your Rudd as he unravels and lives out the nightmare of a historical murder that took place in the early 1900s. Very creepy at times, the novel is well worth reading and held the tension through the end.
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Haunting, possibly cleansing, certainly a breakthrough.
13. August 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Evenson's latest novel was given me as a review assignment for a print venue, and I find I must also praise the book here. THE OPEN CURTAIN gave me goosebumps I've never shaken; it brought me terribly close to a razor of a choice -- on the one hand the halting dance of possible human connection, even love, and on the other disgust with our sinful bodies, mere spoiled meat.
The novel's protagonist, Rudd, is half an orphan, the son of a father who killed himself. An ordinary teenage loneliness is thus exacerbated, occasionally to the point of violence, and Rudd's also too bright and imaginative for the constrictions of the Latter Day Saints, his religion, as practiced in the mid-1960s in Provo, Utah. The book's opening chapters throw the boy together with the only companionship he can count on, another teen, Lael or Lyle. This young man may be the son, by another woman, of Rudd's own father. Both maybe-brothers grow obsessed with a controversial Mormon practice, repudiated in their own day, called "blood atonement." According to this notion, old sins are best washed away by spilling new blood.
After that -- as Lael or Lyle becomes more heLL-ish, less an actual person than a diabolic presence -- Rudd's tormented acting-out turns scarier, perhaps murderous. Yet before we're halfway through THE OPEN CURTAIN, the story develops a sunnier track, one parallel to that vicious business. Rudd finds himself drawn together with Lyndi, the college-age survivor of a family that has just been slaughtered.
So this horror show develops into a searing either-or. On one side there's madness, and on the other marriage. Much of the book's second half makes this struggle quite moving, even as its basic elements emerge more clearly: demon Lael versus angel Lyndi.
Evenson has always dealt in shock and brains (see the splendid DARK PROPERTY, in particular), but in this book he works with emotional currency as well. I have a few small reservations about how well he's brought off the exploration of feeling, but I can't fault the attempt, which includes language more direct than before, and a range of reference fittingly middle American. The book's a breakthrough for this author, and well-nigh unique in its embodiment of the fractured heart, at once self-destructive and self-replenishing.
The novel's protagonist, Rudd, is half an orphan, the son of a father who killed himself. An ordinary teenage loneliness is thus exacerbated, occasionally to the point of violence, and Rudd's also too bright and imaginative for the constrictions of the Latter Day Saints, his religion, as practiced in the mid-1960s in Provo, Utah. The book's opening chapters throw the boy together with the only companionship he can count on, another teen, Lael or Lyle. This young man may be the son, by another woman, of Rudd's own father. Both maybe-brothers grow obsessed with a controversial Mormon practice, repudiated in their own day, called "blood atonement." According to this notion, old sins are best washed away by spilling new blood.
After that -- as Lael or Lyle becomes more heLL-ish, less an actual person than a diabolic presence -- Rudd's tormented acting-out turns scarier, perhaps murderous. Yet before we're halfway through THE OPEN CURTAIN, the story develops a sunnier track, one parallel to that vicious business. Rudd finds himself drawn together with Lyndi, the college-age survivor of a family that has just been slaughtered.
So this horror show develops into a searing either-or. On one side there's madness, and on the other marriage. Much of the book's second half makes this struggle quite moving, even as its basic elements emerge more clearly: demon Lael versus angel Lyndi.
Evenson has always dealt in shock and brains (see the splendid DARK PROPERTY, in particular), but in this book he works with emotional currency as well. I have a few small reservations about how well he's brought off the exploration of feeling, but I can't fault the attempt, which includes language more direct than before, and a range of reference fittingly middle American. The book's a breakthrough for this author, and well-nigh unique in its embodiment of the fractured heart, at once self-destructive and self-replenishing.
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Compelling portrait of madness
7. Juni 2007
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This book made me feel that madness was lurking just on the edge of my life, ready to lunge forward and bite me, or someone I know, with its sharp teeth. It genuinely frightened me. Rudd's private world, where everything is off-kilter or imaginary, is written so effectively that your own world looks a little weird, a little aslant, and you have to shake your head every few pages to clear it. The writing is wonderful, clear and yet complex, and the conception of the novel is incredible.
An absorbing, terrifying, totally addictive experience...but not for the squeamish, or the chick-lit crowd.
An absorbing, terrifying, totally addictive experience...but not for the squeamish, or the chick-lit crowd.
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