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Wire to Wire

de Scott Sparling

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Wire to Wire assembles a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, tells a harrowing tale of friendship and loss, and creates a stunning portrait of Northern Michigan in the late 1970s.

While riding a freight car through Detroit, Michael Slater suffers a near-fatal accidentâ??a power line to the head. After recovering, he tries to lead a quiet life in the desert, but his problems just follow him. Slater returns to his native Michigan to seek out his old train-hopping pal, only to find that the Pleasant Peninsula of his youth is none too pleasant. Before long he finds his way into a love triangle, gets caught in the schemes of the resident drug lord, and manages to end up on the wrong side of everyone and everything in the small town of Wolverine. When the violent sociopath Slater left to die in the desert tracks him down, the chance of getting out of this hell unscathed starts to look slim.

Three years later, Slater sits in a dark video-editing suite, popping speed like penny candy, trying to reconcile himself with the unfilmed memories that haunt his screens and his conscience.

Scott Sparlingâ??s debut novel, with echoes of Robert Stone and Denis Johnson, pays homage to one of our most popular and enduring genresâ??the American cri
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This is a much harsher story than what I would usually choose to read, but it is very good. Slater has survived electrocution while hopping a train in Detroit, but this (and drugs) have messed up his thinking. Believing that he has killed a man, he heads to Michigan. This a fast-paced book which looks at the rougher side of life. ( )
  milibrarian | Apr 21, 2012 |
Wire to Wire is a beautifully written literary crime novel. It is filled with damaged people who are on a collision course with each other. They can't help but run in to, over and through each other as their lives, actions and relationships fill them with an ache. Things won't end well for them
  LastCall | Jul 20, 2011 |
(This review incomplete -mck) I liked this book. An abundance of defective characters are addicted to alcohol, any kind of drug you can think of, violence, perverted co-dependencies. [Michael] Slater and Harp [Maitland] find respite riding the rails as hobos do. But as There is purity in escape on the rails. But like the Michael Corleone quote in "Godfather III: "Just when I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in." The deterioration of the rail systems in the 1970s is emblematic of the distopian ethos of this novel.

Slater and Harp accept of the reality of the moment however dismal. And that's the joy. The fight for the next moment, never never beyond it. ( )
  mckall08 | Jul 19, 2011 |
Scott Sparling's Wire to Wire is a bleak, tense story that is permeated with both crime and unremitting misery throughout.

Sparling's book is set in both the Arizona desert and the wooded wilderness of Northern Michigan. Occurring during the 1970's, all of the book's primary characters are battling with various self-inflicted hardships and vice, as a reflection of that period of time. These battles continually prevent each of them from ever connecting completely with others and often dictates the poor choices that they continue to make throughout the story.

The book's protagonist, Michael Slater, who is a train-hopper with his friend Harp Maitland, suffered a severe head injury and near fatal electrocution, while riding on top of a train car. This event permanently shapes Slater's perceptions and recollections, as the book winds labyrinthine from tragedy to tragedy.

Slater mentions that he is looking for a woman with a "fearless heart", but in actuality, would like to find that very quality within himself. As the bodies accumulate and the amphetamine-fueled madness conflagrates around him, Slater has to call upon himself to develop that "fearless heart", as a means of survival.

As Wire to Wire unravels, Slater eventually appears to reconcile his life and the considerable losses that he has suffered as a result of his poor choices. By no means a "feel good" novel, Wire to Wire is always taut and never less than intriguing. ( )
  Bigrider7 | May 19, 2011 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Wire to Wire assembles a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, tells a harrowing tale of friendship and loss, and creates a stunning portrait of Northern Michigan in the late 1970s.

While riding a freight car through Detroit, Michael Slater suffers a near-fatal accidentâ??a power line to the head. After recovering, he tries to lead a quiet life in the desert, but his problems just follow him. Slater returns to his native Michigan to seek out his old train-hopping pal, only to find that the Pleasant Peninsula of his youth is none too pleasant. Before long he finds his way into a love triangle, gets caught in the schemes of the resident drug lord, and manages to end up on the wrong side of everyone and everything in the small town of Wolverine. When the violent sociopath Slater left to die in the desert tracks him down, the chance of getting out of this hell unscathed starts to look slim.

Three years later, Slater sits in a dark video-editing suite, popping speed like penny candy, trying to reconcile himself with the unfilmed memories that haunt his screens and his conscience.

Scott Sparlingâ??s debut novel, with echoes of Robert Stone and Denis Johnson, pays homage to one of our most popular and enduring genresâ??the American cri

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