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Just look inside the mouth of this possum. This book has teeth and it is rare that sequels have such bare bones reality. I absolutely loved the references to The National and Celtic mythology. It felt Updike-like (oooo, that rhymed). It's quick and dirty. Literature needs more grit like this.
Retitled Pacific.From an essay written by Micah, a young central character tossed about in Drury's casually eventful novel:When I was small I survived a tornado that blew a van in which I was a passenger through a silo. The wind was so loud that all the world and its things seemed to be made of sou...
Like Richard Russo but with edge, sophistication of style and subtle darkness.One of my favorite passages:Tiny had to wait in line behind two young women - a tall one in embroidered denim and another one with straight black hair - who were looking at the course catalogue."I'm thinking about Rock Poe...
Like a punk-rock Faulkner with touches of Bret Easton Ellis.
The book's title comes from a Sargent painting - a painting a mob boss wants in his house. So Paul Emmons has to get it for him - but first we follow him through an Updike-ian journey through his past and the pasts of others. The weird and the funny sidle up to each other as the Godfather trope boil...
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