Borrowed from the public library.
Rating: 2/5 174 pages, 2017
Jan 5, 2019
In Calabria
by Peter S. Beagle
An old man who prefers to keep to himself finds a unicorn hanging around on his farm. He tries to keep it a secret, to protect the unicorn, especially when he learns why it has chosen to stay on his land for a while. But of course eventually people learn it is there, and it draws media attention and worse to his quiet corner of the world. Some powerful, unscrupulous person wished to possess the farm by force, and that's where the story started to loose my interest. I guess it fitted well into a modern story about unicorns, to have thugs with automatic weapons threatening a quiet farmer, but the aspect of danger and violence never felt real? the narrative has such a quiet, calm tone to it all. There were other aspects of the story I just didn't care for. Especially the romance. It wasn't right. I wonder if I'll ever love another Peter S. Beagle book as much as The Last Unicorn- I tried Tamsin and couldn't (it's a ghost story), I've been meaning to attempt A Fine and Private Place but never got around to it yet.
Borrowed from the public library.
Rating: 2/5 174 pages, 2017
Borrowed from the public library.
Rating: 2/5 174 pages, 2017
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I loved The Last Unicorn too and was hoping you were going to say this was really good. Sounds like it missed the mark.
ReplyDeleteyeah, it was disappointing. I do still want to try some of his other unicorn stories- The Immortal Unicorn, The Unicorn Sonata . . . but I'm not as eager now. I don't think any of them will quite live up to The Last Unicorn.
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