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Chargement... Bullettimepar Nick Mamatas
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"Think Run Lola Run by way of the Columbine massacre. . . . A noir steeped in teenage misery and revenge" by the author of Sensation and Sabbath (Backlisted). Every day, Dave Holbrook runs the gauntlet of high school in northern New Jersey, complete with racial tensions, bullying, and outright violence. His home life isn't so great either. His mother's an alcoholic and his father can't be bothered. So Dave subsists on over-the-counter cough syrup and his love for her . . . She's a transfer student, a waitress, a goddess of discord named Eris. And she offers Dave a way out of his miserable existence--and into an infinite number of tragically short lives. In one, he dies of bronchitis as a baby. In another, he has a job installing lottery machines until a fatal car wreck. And in the darkest one of all, he arms himself with an Uzi and walks into his school. No matter what happens, it seems, Dave is trapped on a never-ending ride of infinite possibilities--with Eris at the wheel. "Nick Mamatas's work is often so relevant and timely as to border on the prophetic, and his fourth solo novel is no exception. It may also be his most accessible book to date, which is all the more impressive when you consider its non-linear, unique structure, and the Gus Van Sant-sized elephant in the classroom--Bullettime centers around a miserable teenager shooting up his high school." --Strange Horizons "Complex, ambitious . . . Readers willing to venture off the beaten path will be intrigued by Dave's sometimes pathetic and sometimes oddly endearing life stories." --Publishers Weekly "Mamatas's strong voice shines." --SF Signal Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The story is told by Dave Holbrook as he sits outside of time and watches himself go through multiple alternate realities. Most of these lives focus on his teenage years. Almost all lead Dave to an early death. And every one was miserable. He's picked on at school and his parents are no help to him. He self-medicates his way through live with cough medicine. Things start to look up for him when he meets Erin, a beautiful new student who finds Dave interesting. However, Erin is really Eris, the goddess of discord, who finds Dave interesting because of the chaos she can use him to create.
The storytelling is not completely linear. Narrator Dave jumps across the different realities and picks up pieces from all of them. He's trying to find something positive since so many of his lives are pretty miserable. That search across the lives was captivating to me as a reader. Where were we being drawn? What redeeming factors would we find? At the same time, this is where I end up lost. There wasn't enough of a definitive ending with which to be satisfied. If Narrator Dave found one life that was true happiness, then it wouldn't have stayed true with the rest of the book. Finding that satisfying ending for Daves in multiple timelines is tough. Before you start to think you should skip the book though, at no point during the story did I ever feel like marking the book as Did Not Finish. It is a complex story and held my attention the whole way through. I'm not sure if it truly worked for me but maybe in a slightly different reality, it does satisfy me completely. Give the book a try and see where you land. After all, maybe the book was meant to leave the reader unsettled and thinking rather than satisfied and forgotten. (