John A. Scott’s The Boy Who Loved Dolls is a surreal tale of figurative dismemberments
John A. Scott’s latest novel, The Boy Who Loved Dolls, has the bare bones of an archetypal Gothic narrative: a young woman confined in a sprawling mansion; an enigmatic, possibly sinister older man; the disconcerting traces of a former lover, her disappearance still unsolved; the fear of sharing her fate.…
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