Ebook {Epub PDF} A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli

Click to read more about A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers/5(4). A Choir of Ill Children is a beautifully-written, disturbing and creepy gothic jambalaya of conjoined triplets sharing one brain, swamp whores and voodoo ritual that just misses the mark due to a narrator that is at the heart of this heady mash, but never seems too fearful of the madness and death that is /5. About A Choir of Ill Children. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli’s The Last Kind Words. This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.

4) Tom Piccirilli - "A Choir Of Ill Children" (Nightshade Books) More thoughts on this here. 5) Tom Robbins - "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" (Bantam) Recommended by a co-worker. I enjoyed it. 6) Robert Aickman - "Painted Devils" (Scribner) 7) Jerzy Kosinski - "The Painted Bird" (Pocket Books). BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind www.doorway.ru lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Childre. A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli I've read, or attempted to read, several Piccirilli novels. The Night Class was fantastic. I couldn't get into Dark Father. Hexes was a mess. A Choir of Ill Children, however I'm not sure what to think. I liked it, but I didn't love it. Present tense always throws me, but I can get over that.

In this compelling Southern Gothic, Piccirilli (whose novel The Night Class has grabbed the Stoker for Best Novel) presents a searing portrait of twisted souls trapped in a wasteland. Tom Piccirilli's A Choir Of Ill Children rates high at the top of my "favorite books of the year" list. The strange story, bizarre characters, and intense atmosphere all cook up into a weird southern gumbo. Piccirilli's narrative style is powerful, poetic, dark, and so vital that you can feel the novel's blood, bone, and muscle on every page. A Choir Of Ill Children takes place deep in the superstitious bayou. It’s a degenerate world of swamp witchery, the ghosts and demons of family, and transcendent loyalty. It’s Piccirilli’s sense of place and characterization that impressed me.