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Hidden Pictures de Jason Rekulak

Hidden Pictures

Autor Jason Rekulak
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mai 2022

O bonă care luptă pentru propria sobrietate. Un copil de patru ani ale cărui desene infantile ascund o violență macabră. În Hidden Pictures, tensiunea se naște din coliziunea brutală dintre viața ordonată a suburbiilor înstărite și o prezență invizibilă care refuză să tacă. Mallory crede că postul de dădacă pentru micul Teddy este șansa ei la o viață normală, însă totul se prăbușește când schițele băiatului trec de la soare și flori la imaginea unei femei târâte prin pădure. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în modul în care fragilitatea umană este exploatată de un supranatural incert. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Rachel Ryan în Hidden Lies, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Ryan explorează doliul, Rekulak folosește ilustrațiile fizice pentru a amplifica teroarea vizuală. Apreciem ritmul alert, segmentat de desenele realizate de Will Staehle și Doogie Horner, care transformă experiența de lectură într-o investigație grafică. Față de debutul său nostalgic, The Impossible Fortress, Jason Rekulak face aici un salt spectaculos spre suspansul psihologic întunecat. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Writer's Block, autorul se juca cu structuri neconvenționale, aici integrează perfect elementul vizual în structura unui roman polițist modern. Rezultatul este un mecanism narativ care nu lasă nicio secundă de răgaz, forțându-ne să ne întrebăm: cine ține, de fapt, creionul în mână?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250819345
ISBN-10: 1250819342
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 165 x 237 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Flatiron Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un thriller psihologic cu elemente grafice unice. Cititorul câștigă o experiență imersivă, unde ilustrațiile nu sunt doar decor, ci piese de puzzle esențiale. Este o lectură obligatorie pentru fanii poveștilor cu case care ascund secrete vechi și pentru cei care au apreciat tensiunea din Hidden Lies.

Despre autor

Jason Rekulak este un scriitor american de succes, nominalizat la premiul Edgar pentru debutul său. Înainte de a se dedica scrisului, a predat scriere creativă la Universitatea din Miami și a lucrat mulți ani ca editor, experiență care se reflectă în precizia structurii sale narative. Hidden Pictures reprezintă marea sa reușită comercială, fiind desemnat Thrillerul Anului de Amazon.com și câștigând prestigiosul premiu Goodreads Choice. Rekulak este cunoscut pentru capacitatea de a inova genul thriller prin integrarea elementelor vizuale și a răsturnărilor de situație multiple. Locuiește în Philadelphia împreună cu familia sa.

Notă biografică

Jason Rekulak is the author of The Impossible Fortress, which was translated into 12 languages and was nominated for the Edgar Award. For many years, he was the publisher of Quirk Books, an independent press, where he acquired and edited multiple New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Philadelphia with his family.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER · OPTIONED FOR NETFLIX BY A PRODUCER OF THE BATMAN

"I loved it." ?Stephen King

From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman's lifeless body.

Then, Teddy's artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.

Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it's too late.

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'I loved it. The surprises really surprise and it has that hard-to-achieve propulsiveness that won't let you put it down. And the pictures are terrific!' Stephen King

'Must be the boldest double twist of the year. Truly fantastic' The Times


AN AMAZON.COM BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER OF THE YEAR

Mallory is delighted to have a new job looking after gorgeous four-year-old, Teddy. She's been sober for a year and a half and she's sure her new nannying role in the affluent suburbs will help keep her on the straight and narrow.

That is until Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of his imaginary friend, Anya. It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy's parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead.

Teddy's crayons are confiscated, and his paper locked away. But the drawings somehow keep coming, telling a frightening story of a woman murdered... and they're getting more sophisticated. But if Teddy isn't drawing the pictures anymore, who is? And what are they trying to tell Mallory about her new home?

If you love Hidden Pictures, don't miss Look What the Cat Dragged In, the delightfully creepy new novel by Jason Rekulak

'Genuine jump-scares' Guardian

'Gripping, with intriguing characters and genuinely creepy moments' Daily Mirror

'Whip-smart, creepy as hell . . . Destined to be a classic of the genre' Ransom Riggs

'One of the best and most inventive ghost stories I've read in years' Joe Hill

'Almost enough to make a person believe in ghosts' Kirkus

'So spooky' Buzzfeed

'Memorable and twisty' Esquire

Recenzii

I loved it. The surprises really surprise and it has that hard-to-achieve propulsiveness that won't let you put it down. And the pictures are terrific!
Must be the boldest double twist of the year. Truly fantastic
Part ghost story, part social-inequality satire [with] genuine paper jump-scares
Tightly plotted and well written [...] A gripping page-turner with intriguing characters and genuinely creepy moments
Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller I've read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre
A disturbing household secret has far-reaching consequences in this dark, unusual ghost story . . . Rekulak does a great job with character development: Mallory, who narrates in the first person, has an engaging voice; the Maxwells' slightly overbearing parenting style and passive-aggressive quips feel very familiar; and Teddy is so three-dimensional that he sometimes feels like a real child. It's almost enough to make a person believe in ghosts
So spooky
Hidden Pictures isn't a ghost story, it's a scalpel that slices into our smug sense of self-satisfaction so deeply it hits bone. A perfect summer thriller complete with vengeful spirits, class warfare, and it even has pictures. What more could you want?
One of the best and most inventive ghost stories I've read in years. The damaged but still fighting Mallory Quinn stole my heart. It's a beautiful dark rush of a novel. I'm already excited to read it again
A gripping supernatural thriller
The explosive third act gives this story a nail-biting ending sure to thrill
Memorable and twisty . . . Seems designed to be read at the side of the pool with a drink in your hand and a smile on your face