I loved this book. Stephen Wright's writing style is delightful. He totally immerses you into a witty, strange, Southern world of violence, politics and beauty.
"I don't know, maybe it's me, but I couldn't make any sense of it at all. I mean, there's no beginning, no middle, no end. There's no coherence. It just kind of settles over you. Like a musty tent."Our hero, Spec. 4 James Griffin, is speaking above, but it's also a perfect description of the book, w...
I was looking forward to it forever, and then it just didn't grab me. At all.Library copy
I had read a bunch of reviews saying that this novel was the novel on Vietnam. It was supposed to be better than any of Tim O'Brien's pieces. This isn't a bad novel, but O'brien's works -- particularly Going After Cacciato -- have much more depth. This has the absurdity of Catch-22 and the horror of...
It's been about 8 years since I last re-read this, so I can't/won't say much here except: read it. (Since Dan Chaon's excellent Await Your Reply goosed my memory of this Wright, I'm planning to re-read it again, too.) I picked up the original hardback cold in the bookstore, knowing nothing of its ...
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