The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine, Peter Straub
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine, Peter Straub
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The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine
An eShort

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 1 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2012

Synopsis

Peter Straub masterfully weaves  horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.
 
Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a haze of pain and pleasure, the lovers are witness to a series of increasingly sinister portents, dreams and visions that haunt their claustrophobic and disturbing world. With Peter Straub’s signature, breathtaking twists and an astonishing climax, you’ll never forget The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.

About The Author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels.  Two of his most recent, Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his recent collection, 5 Stories.  Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of America anthology The American Fantastic Tale and the horror collection Poe’s Children.  He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

"The world had closed on her, as a steel trap snaps shut on the leg of a bear." Initial Thoughts I've been reading Peter Straub like a man possessed for the past year and now I've only three more entries left. And they're all fairly short. Sad times, particularly with the author's passing las......more

Goodreads review by Vicki

Food for thought... THE BALLAD OF BALLARD AND SANDRINE: An eShort by Peter Staub No spoilers: 3 1/2 stars. While I found this story to be interesting right up to the end, I like my stories to be explained a tad bit more than this one was... Ballard met Sandrine when she was 15 years old. Ballard's job w......more

Goodreads review by Maciek

I am a fan of Peter Straub and have read all of his books, and this is easily his worst story/novella - by a long shot. I should have expected bad things from the asinine title (Ballad of Ballard? Really?) There's no music in Ballad; in fact, there's not much of anything. The story, as it is, is conc......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Not sure I got this...could be me. Seems to me to be a story of metaphysical bondage...two lovers trapped in a time and place that is no longer temporal in a linear way - unable to escape the past even as the future seems to be very much in question. A very strange book - may have to read it again a......more

Goodreads review by Corey

EDIT: Im currently a month and a half out from having read this novella, and I’m still being creeped out by it, and bringing it up whenever I can. This thing is disturbing on a cellular level. So I feel the need to adjust my rating from 4 to 4.5. This book is such a huge WTF all around, and I contin......more

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