Generation Loss

De: Elizabeth Hand

Narrado por: Carol Monda

Cass Neary made her name in the 70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame.

Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

©2008 Elizabeth Hand (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Binge- listened

What drives an artist to create? Like the work of her characters, Hand creates memorable images that straddle the analog and digital worlds.

A terrific read

Imaginative and dark, Generation Loss features a tough, self-destructive character. It's brilliantly written, atmospheric, and memorable. A terrific read

Unbelievably good

I lived on the lower East Side in the 80's, and Hand just nailed it.
Couldn't stop listening; stayed up all night til the story finally let me go.

WOW!

So glad I found this. I can relate to the main character with her darkness and pain. I couldn't stop listening and am looking forward to getting into the other instalments.

I am a hooked fan now. It's just great and gritty and non apologetic!

On to the next...

Very dark

A good but very dark crime novel. It made me feel sick and a bit dirty but I could not put it down.

creative but bizarre

creepy and bizarre but i suppose it is valuable to get an artist's perspective. tale of a photographer who encounters the dark side of the art

Evocative style, great performance

As usual Hand’s story pulled me in. If I could root for her protagonists, her books would be five star reads for me. But other readers may adore her deeply flawed, hostile protagonists. The narrator was perfect as the voice of Cas.

Dark, Beautiful, Weird

This author has an awesome style. It is a very visual, and there is little question about the picture she is painting at any given moment.

However I think at times she gets bogged down a little in the details about photography processes, avante guard art, and the main character's own self destructive behavior.

There are two "apexes" to this story and the first one is sooo flippin' creepy, as she takes pictures while someone dies. Fortunately the second one, near the end, generates the kind of kind of tension and excitement to pull all of the points together.

Overall a very good story, performed by a very good reader.

It has its moments

I was relatively engaged until about 2/3 in, then I stopped caring. I realized that, beyond basic human empathy, I didn't have any interest in what happened to any of the characters. I felt like the author would periodically remind the reader that Cass was edgy, just in case we forgot. I toughed it out to the end, because it must have some redeeming qualities to have been rated so high, but the last third of the book offered a bit of closure, not much more.

Thoroughly enjoyed

I'm not sure when we started passing moral judgment on fictional characters, but if you can only read about perfect, moral, proper people you're going to get bored quickly. I was fascinated by this character, she was more like real people that I actually know. Not in the gritty details, but with human foibles and character defects. The narration was perfect. I immediately downloaded the rest of the series.