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If I Should Die Before I Wake
Contains six Irish/Woolrich stories:
-If I Should Die Before I Wake
-I'll Never Play Detective Again
-Change of Murder
-A Death is Caused (orig. Mind Over Murder)
-Two Murders, One Crime
-The Man Upstairs
-If I Should Die Before I Wake
-I'll Never Play Detective Again
-Change of Murder
-A Death is Caused (orig. Mind Over Murder)
-Two Murders, One Crime
-The Man Upstairs
228 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1945
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October 3, 2021
Never talk to strangers or accept gifts from them!
If I Should Die Before I Wake is a short detective noir story. The story is told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy. The boy faces an ethical dilemma: to come to the aid of his classmate or keep the promise he made to her? The author William Irish raises the problem of not taking seriously adolescents by adults. The child is accustomed to the fact that adults don't trust him, and in return he doesn't trust them. Its a very easy reading. A gloomy atmosphere is achieved through various factors: external - night, rare lanterns, wasteland, forest, shadows, creaks, and internal - painful experience and despair.
If I Should Die Before I Wake is a short detective noir story. The story is told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy. The boy faces an ethical dilemma: to come to the aid of his classmate or keep the promise he made to her? The author William Irish raises the problem of not taking seriously adolescents by adults. The child is accustomed to the fact that adults don't trust him, and in return he doesn't trust them. Its a very easy reading. A gloomy atmosphere is achieved through various factors: external - night, rare lanterns, wasteland, forest, shadows, creaks, and internal - painful experience and despair.
August 16, 2022
Every story in the collection features Irish’s stellar prose and several pages of his renowned escalating tension. Some of the plots feel a bit constructed, but every story’s assets clearly outweigh any of their weaknesses.
May 22, 2023
If i should die before for William Irish.
Corto relato de la desaparición de unas niñas desde la perspectiva de un niño con completo desconocimiento del tema.
Esta idea de que los jóvenes no deben saber las cosas malas que hay en el mundo, no es proteger, es cegar. No hay necesidad de traumarlos contándoles cosas de forma morbosa, pero deben saber que no todo el mundo es bueno.
La ignorancia te vuelve vulnerable y la mayor parte del tiempo debes protegerte tu mismo de los "malos".
3/5⭐⭐⭐
Corto relato de la desaparición de unas niñas desde la perspectiva de un niño con completo desconocimiento del tema.
Esta idea de que los jóvenes no deben saber las cosas malas que hay en el mundo, no es proteger, es cegar. No hay necesidad de traumarlos contándoles cosas de forma morbosa, pero deben saber que no todo el mundo es bueno.
La ignorancia te vuelve vulnerable y la mayor parte del tiempo debes protegerte tu mismo de los "malos".
3/5⭐⭐⭐
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