Tonight at 7pm: Keith Donohue will be here to discuss his spooky new novel, THE BOY WHO DREW MONSTERS. Heres this weeks NYT mention about the book: In Donohue’s ingenious novel, Holly and Tim Keenan, living in their “dream house” on the rugged coast of Maine, notice some disturbing changes in their 10-year-old son, Jack Peter. A solitary, fearful kid even at the best of times, he has begun to suffer from terrible nightmares, dreaming of monsters who “lay a hand upon his shoulder” and “whisper in his ear as he slept.” While the parents fret and bicker, strange creatures — perhaps actual monsters — start to appear, as if summoned by the boy’s increasingly fevered imagination. Donohue unspools his simple story patiently, delivering jolts when necessary, but mostly concentrating on the stress generated in a family with an unhappy child. It’s a modest novel, elegantly worked, with a nice chilly twist at the end.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:54:29 +0000
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