Kirby Gann
Autor/a de Ghosting
Obres de Kirby Gann
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Premis
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 5
- Membres
- 48
- Popularitat
- #325,720
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 9
- Llengües
- 1
The other main character is Shady Beck, who was first his brother's girlfriend, and who would become his if James had his way, but for now, they hang out, and she cares for him, but isn't sure how.
The other important characters are his mother, Lyda, a long time addict; the drug pusher, Mister Gruel, who manages yet to have some fatherly feelings towards not only his own son, who goes by the name of Spunk, but also perhaps for the two brothers, James and Fleece; and his partner, Noe, who appears to have no humanity at all; and a preacher, ex-addict.
The final character is the place, the Lake, an ingrown place that sucks one into its rules, "the kind of place people often disappeared from," where James grew up, but Shady, a few miles and a culture away, did not.
What puzzled me, reading the book, was that, though the characters were so well drawn, for the longest time I didn't begin to care about them. I think this had to do with the uncertainty about whether and how they cared for one another. This changed Io that, at the end, I cared very much about what happened to James and Shady. It is a slow build that follows their relationship. By they way much else happens that affects their simply being together. But they are also part of that outside, so they bring on their own fate as they try to understand it.… (més)