Tideland
by Mitch Cullin
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Author: Mitch CullinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-12-31
ISBN: 080231340X
Number of pages: 182
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Book Reviews of Tideland
Book Review: Barely an Okay
Summary: 2 Stars
At first I was blown away by Tideland and the protagonist Jeliza-Rose, with no one for company but various pieces of Barbie dolls picked up in a 5/$1 bin at the thrift store, running wild in the wilds of rural Texas. I was enchanted by the Southern Gothic flavor, by Jeliza-Rose's voice--at once childish and yet overly mature for her age--and by Cullins' descriptions that had me right there, running beside Jeliza-Rose watching the lightening bugs and worrying about bog men.
But then he lost me.
He took the grotesque element of Southern Gothic to the maximum; it was as if he set out to add anything that might possibly be appalling or unappealing or just plain, well, grotesque without making it really fit the plot, throwing it in willy-nilly just for the shock factor.
Now, I'm sure that's not the case, but unlike other Southern Gothic authors (Flannery O'Conner springs to mind) who are making a point with their grotesque and unappealing characters and situations, in Tideland, they were just there. It went from a book that, in the first couple of chapters, I was certain would be a 5 star favorite, to being a barely acceptable "okay" by the time I finished slogging through it.
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A look at the world through the eyes of a wildly imaginative young girl in contemporary Texas.Movie Tie-Ins Books
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