The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

Peter Straubâ€™s Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, and The Throat) is one of the landmark accomplishments of modern popular fiction. Ranging from the Caribbean to Vietnam to the American Midwest and spanning decades of tumultuous history, these books are both unforgettable narratives and indelible portraits of people in extremis, struggling to survive in a world marked by grief, loss, pain, trauma, and homicidal madness. The four stories gathered here are offshoots of that larger fictional universe. Each one stands entirely on its own. Together, they shine a revelatory light on the mysteries and hidden corners of the novels that inspired them.

â€œBlue Roseâ€ recounts a defining moment in the childhood of Kokoâ€™s Harry Beevers, the moment when the ten-year-old Harry discovers his capacity for violence and brutality. â€œThe Juniper Treeâ€ describes, with almost unbearable clarity, a lonely young boyâ€™s encounter with adult betrayal, and with the darker aspects of human sexuality. â€œThe Ghost Villageâ€ takes us to the phantasmagoric landscape of Vietnam, where the barriers between the living and the dead begin to dissolve, to mesmerizing effect. â€œBunny is Good Breadâ€ is arguably Straubâ€™s single most harrowing story. With relentless attention to detail, it anatomizes the creation of a human monster through abuse, cruelty, and neglect.

These disturbing, beautifully written stories have a moral weight and emotional resonance that only the finest fiction achieves. They are the clear product of a master storyteller at the very top of his game. No one who reads them is likely to forget them, or come away unchanged.
Country USA
Manufacturer Subterranean Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-05-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-05-30
Format	Kindle eBook

The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

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