Jack Cady (1932–2004)
Auteur de The Off Season
A propos de l'auteur
Jack Cady was born in Ohio and raised in Indiana and Kentucky. He has worked a wide variety of jobs throughout the country, including stints as a tree high climber, an auctioneer, a long truck driver, and has spent time in the Coast Guard. He has held teaching positions at the University of afficher plus Washington, Clarion College, Knox College, the University of Alaska at Sitka, and Pacific Lutheran University afficher moins
Œuvres de Jack Cady
The Night We Buried Road Dog [novella] 9 exemplaires
Fog 2 exemplaires
By Reason Of Darkness 2 exemplaires
The Souls Of Drowning Mountain 2 exemplaires
Tinker [short story] 2 exemplaires
Jeremiah 2 exemplaires
Play Like I'm Sheriff (short story) 1 exemplaire
Reason Of Darkness 1 exemplaire
The Twenty-Pound Canary 1 exemplaire
Weird Row 1 exemplaire
Kilroy Was Here 1 exemplaire
Our Ground and Every Fragrant Tree Is Shaded 1 exemplaire
Poems (in The Devil's Wine - KING) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contributeur — 249 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Contributeur — 236 exemplaires
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2000, Vol. 99, No. 3 (2000) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Cady, Jack Andrew
- Autres noms
- Cady, Jack
Cady, Jack A.
Franklin, Pat (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1932-03-20
- Date de décès
- 2004-01-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Port Townsend, Washington, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Port Townsend, Washington, USA
- Études
- University of Louisville (1961)
- Professions
- truck driver
auctioneer
tree climber
sailor
professor (University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University)
landscaper - Relations
- Orlock, Carol (wife)
- Organisations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 38
- Aussi par
- 24
- Membres
- 431
- Popularité
- #56,717
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 56
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
The Well, Jack Cady's debut, presents a problem for readers and reviewers alike. Firstly, despite the lurid illustrations on both the hardcover and paperback editions (and the tagline "If you do not believe in evil...you will not know when it takes you"), it's not a horror novel: it's a psychological drama with some of the superficial trappings of a horror novel. That's perfectly fine as long as you know what you're getting into, but a little irksome when you've been led to expect something else. Secondly, it's monotonous: there are, essentially, just two characters (one of whom abruptly disappears from the story without ever being fully developed, only to be dredged up again a page shy of the ending) and a single major setting. Finally, Cady too often sacrifices clarity to indulge in an oblique, circuitous style which seems to have no function apart from filling up space.
On the plus side, Cady's work is characterized by a seriousness of tone and purpose that one rarely encounters in popular fiction; he was writing about difficult, weighty matters and treated them with the proper gravity. The Well is a disjointed effort, but because Cady was so thoughtful and intelligent (and also, perhaps, because I relate to the central character's need to confront his family's singularly dark history), I have a soft spot for it. Two and a half stars.… (plus d'informations)