![]() ![]() Liberated from the stark realism, that so dominates the aptly-named "noir" genre, by VanderMeer's signature fungus tapestry, the reader is taken to an artistic experience that only speculative fiction can give. ![]() No.įinch, our hero - though it's not his real name - is like Hitchcock's Everyman Detective - Vertigo's Jimmy Stewart in a dapper suit and tie in my imaginary version of events, lean and intense in his contained state of paranoia ready to burst - trapped in a world rich with atmospheric fabulism, bleak and black and more noir than noir. ![]() No vampires looking for love in Dallas, and no magicians dealing with a disbelieving world around them. It upends urban fantasy completely because instead of a fantastickal narrator, our narrator is quite mundane. The thing about Jeff VanderMeer's "Finch" coming out in October 2009, is that it is the sort of masterpiece only VaderMeer could produce. ![]() I'm just going to tell you the core of my experience, and skip reviewing the book. Plenty of those will be coming soon enough. As I am not confident about writing non-fiction reviews at a level of quality that I see in others, I am loathe to really try to write a good and proper review. ![]()
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