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A small, beautiful and haunting novella about love and loss. The narrator is surrounded by the blankness of extreme grief when an echo of the past starts to persist, making him travel back and confront his love for his dead wife. The central conceit of a fractured building works well as a metaphor for the narrator's state, and the gorgeous design of the limited hardback edition employs this well, creating tiny fissures on the top of the pages that grow larger and larger as you move through the b...
nullimmortalis May 28, 2016 at 2:13 pm EditTrying To Be So QuietThis being today’s note, it is addressed to everyone except the book’s author. The Dreamcatcher review below is, as ever, in fusion or symbiosis with a hyper-imaginative fiction. A NO SPOILER POLICY OPERATED THROUGHOUT. But on rare occasions such reviews can accidentally reveal too much…Pages 1 – 26“They were just building their dreary little spires up into the sky.”There is Marie in TS Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, but no Lizzie….This
This story is about a man who has recently lost his wife Lizzie from Cancer, set over a couple of months after her death; it follows his life whilst he comes to terms with his loss. This book is described as a ghost story, but the way the author has written this book I think it is more than a ghost story. It is a story about bereavement and how the main character tries and gets on with his life. Whilst you are reading this book you really identify with the main character and you can feel his pai...
Nominally a work of horror, James Everington's slender story of loss occupies less certain ground. The protagonist is deliberately remote (he is given no name) at the same time as being extremely close. The effects and symptoms of the apparent haunting may matter, or they may not. Either way, they cannot breach the walls of the protagonist's grief, which is the raw core of the book.And yet... Trying To Be So Quiet may be too quiet, too subtle, for my tastes, or it may be that the examination of
Everington evokes the feelings of emptiness and futility the death of a loved one can bring with assured prose and acute insight. A different type of ghost story its horror comes not from the actions of the spirit but from the sad struggle of the unnamed protagonist as tries to go on despite the crushing weight of apathy for the world around him. A subtly uplifting final scene adds a glimmer of hope which renders the book all the more accomplished.
A powerful story about grief, about how we cope when someone we love, the spark in our life, is suddenly not there anymore; about how the gaping hole of loss can manifest ghosts and tilt life into strangeness. This short book really stayed with me; its final passage was a beautiful and bittersweet coda. Everington is a very fine writer, and one to really watch.
