A Choir of Ill Children
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With its diverse population of granny-witches, tongue-speaking preachers, swamp-rat whores, drunks, cult followers, and other assorted forms of human refuse, it is the kind of town no one wants to end up in, much less take credit for starting.
Thomas is the richest and most respected and reviled citizen of Kingdom Come. His father, who founded the town, committed suicide; and his mother disappeared when he was still quite young, leaving him to care for his conjoined triplet brothers. Through the course of the story Thomas is sought out by the granny-witches, who believe he is not doing his duty by the land, and tells him cryptically that he must pay his debt.
While very stylish and beautiful in its complexity, A Choir of Ill Children commences its story without much cohesion. It begins as a confusing, yet quirky, tale; but by the middle portion it begins to get quite interesting.
A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN
In fact, the last thirty pages of this novel are so emotionally charged that readers will fly through them until they arrive at the last — unsettled and disheveled. Through his characterization of the swamp he breathes life into the town, letting the readers see the terrible beauty that exists beneath the belching frogs and cloudy water. From beginning to end, this is an intensely literate, allegorical work filled with symbols and irony, memorable characters and wickedly sharp wit.
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- A Choir Of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli - Penguin Books Australia.
One thing Piccirilli fans will recognize is the narrator's voice. The calm, self-assured, thinking at a level just beyond the rest of the characters voice is a trademark of Piccirillian prose.
In this novel, that narrator is Thomas, elder of four brothers. The other three, Jonah, Cole, and Sebastian, are co-joined triplets, sharing a single brain but with very different world-views and agendas.
A Choir of Ill Children book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereThis. A Choir of Ill Children: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – June 1, This 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 Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a.
Assaulted on one side by the granny-witches, who claim the horrendous storms and flooding afflicting the town of Kingdom Come can only be combated using his sperm, to the child-molesting ghost from his past that visits him both in waking hours and dreams, to the knife-toting redneck who despises fencing, Thomas is confronted with one challenge after another. Thomas is not only the heir to the huge old house and family fortune, but to the one real business that Kingdom Come can boast - the Mill.
Nearly everyone in the town looks to him for either money, sex, guidance, salvation, or some combination of the four. Problems that affect the many are laid at his feet. Like the young girl found alone in the swamp sitting on a rock.
James Conroyd Martin. Download Hi Res. Blood Oath. There area a meager number of semi-colons but a fair amount of emphasis is drawn to certain words via italics. In Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children the title refers to the sound made by certain unfortunate characters, symbolizing the pain of the innocent , the narrator is the owner of "The Mill," a source of wealth and prestige -- as well as responsibility -- in the backwater town of Kingdom Come.
Like the Cocaine addicted student film maker, Sarah, who falls in love with one of the triplets, driving her camera-man boyfriend away in a drugged, confused stupor. She sits endlessly at the brother's feet and listens to one of them recite love poetry to her as Dodi, the young daughter of one of the granny witches works toward either Sarah's end, or her ejection from the "family.
Thomas sees it all, and understands it all - or tries.
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