Ig is the second son of a renowned musician and the younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, Terry Perrish. The novel consists of fifty chapters grouped into five sections of ten chapters each, named as follows:Ģ6-year-old Ignatius "Ig" Perrish wakes up one morning after a drunken night (in the woods containing an old foundry, near where his girlfriend's corpse was discovered) to find that he has sprouted bony, sensitive horns from his temples.
1.5 The Gospel According to Mick and Keith.Stephen always wanted to be taken as a straight fiction writer, but I'm wondering it won't be his son that fulfills that destiny.
Yesterday I had to stop reading a breakup scene on the subway because it was too upsetting. The story has an emotional center of which I'd never experienced in any Stephen King novel. And Joe tends to overwork the symbolism (Ig brother's obviously had to be a world-famous trumpet player, because horns, right?)īut there is one area that the son excels in: heart. P è re King has a slightly more febrile imagination you sense that Stephen is writing about things that genuinely frighten him. Both of them have a pedestrian but effective prose style. They're both excellent at character-driven plot. The most interesting thing about reading the book is the constant awareness that Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. But as the book wears on it acquires that fugue-like quality that I love in good genre, the sense that plot is being energetically driven by the desires and flaws of each character.
It is an entertaining but not exactly great work of popular fiction. Truthfully, the willing suspension of disbelief comes grudgingly.
He then learns that priest, mother and grandmother detest him, believing that he was the one who killed his girlfriend. He sees his doctor about the horns, but his doctor tells him that all he wants to do is crush and snort some oxycontin and that he likes to masturbate while watching one of his teenage daughter's female friends cavort in the pool from the bedroom window. He also discovers that if makes skin-to-skin contact with another person that he instantly knows their worst secrets. Ig quickly discovers that the horns give him to power to compel people to divulge their ugliest thoughts to him. For some inexplicable reason I started reading the Joe Hill book Horns, which is about a character named Ig who goes on a bender one year to the day that his girlfriend was brutally murdered and wakes up to discover a pair of devil horns growing out of his skull.
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