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S'està carregant… Ghostingde Kirby Gann
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I Got to page 125 and had to quit, and to get this far took multiple days. This is one very boring book and by this point in an almost 300 page book, something has to make the reader want to proceed. The characters up to this point are one dimensional and behave as stereotypical as possible. The author can write, he checks off as many of the MFA requirements that books these days feel the need to include, copying the styles of Cormac McCarthy and the descriptions by James Lee Burke, but mimicking these writers isn't the same as telling a story that these authors would tell. In this case the story is just not interesting, and I bet I can figure out the ending. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
HTML: "A novelist of daring creativity and passion."â??Edmund White A dying drug kingpin enslaved to the memory of his dead wife; a young woman torn between a promising future and the hardscrabble world she grew up in; a mother willing to do anything to fuel her addiction to pills; and her youngest son, searching for the truth behind his older brother's disappearance, are just some of the unforgettable characters that populate Ghosting, Kirby Gann's lush and lyrical novel of family and community, and the ties that can both bond and betray. Fleece Skaggs has disappeared, along with drug dealer Lawrence Gruel's reefer harvest. Deciding that the best way to discover what happened to his older brother is to take his place as a drug runner for Gruel, James Cole plunges into a dark underworld of drugs, violence, and long hidden family secrets, where discovering what happened to his brother could cost him his life. A genre-subverting literary mystery told from the alternating viewpoint of different characters, Ghosting is both a simple quest for the truthâ??what exactly happened to Fleece Skaggs?â??and a complex consideration of human frailty. Kirby Gann is the author of the novels The Barbarian Parade and Our Napoleon in Rags (Ig Publishing, 2005). His short fiction has appeared in Witness and The Best of Witness, The Crescent Review, American Writing, The Louisville Review, Southeast Review, and The Southern Indiana Review, among other journals. Gann is managing editor at Sarabande Books and teaches in the brief-residency MFA in writing program at Spalding Univers No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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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. ( )