The Week You Weren't Here - Couverture souple

Blackstone, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0972336346 ISBN 13 : 9780972336345

Editeur : Low Fidelity Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Blackstone Charles

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

To launch his first novel, The Week You Weren t Here, Charles Blackstone utilizes a Franz Kafka epigraph: It amuses me, said K., only because it gives me some insight into the ridiculous tangle that may under certain circumstances determine a person s life. In the novel the person s life is Hunter Flanagan s; the ridiculous tangle, a web of love interests and a forthcoming move to graduate school (after a leisurely stroll through college). Interestingly enough, the Kafka epigraph informs both the novel s strengths and its weaknesses. The Week You Weren t Here is a commendable collage of centrifugal amusements. Yet if insight is important, as it is to Kafka, the novel falls short since the amusements do not lead to a discernable payoff. Near the end of the novel, for instance, we learn that Some people were still innocent not yet corrupted and Hunter envied them. From the reader s perspective, however, Hunter seems nothing other than naive and innocent (and possibly obtuse) throughout: Hunter Flanagan was sure that a few drinks might make her interesting so he didn t mind so much her coming but of course what if Dewey liked him revealed things wasn t coy was forthcoming. Blackstone does succeed when it comes to syntactical innovation. Given the strength of the narrative voice, the reader quickly learns to read Charles Blackstone s sparsely punctuated prose. --Dr Alan Tinkler

Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Blackstone has a BA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His fiction has appeared most recently in Rio, Wazee Journal, M.A.G.,Whet Magazine, and Opium Magazine. He lives in Chicago where he is presently at work on completing a collection of short stories and another novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Low Fidelity Pr
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0972336346
• ISBN 13: 9780972336345
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible