Northwest Corner

Northwest Corner
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A Novel

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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2011

نویسنده

Various

شابک

9780307915047
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
  • دیدگاه کاربران
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نقد و بررسی

AudioFile Magazine
One of the advantages of having five narrators is the variety--the pleasure of each handoff from one to the other. That is especially true in this performance but not in a positive way. The narration of this sequel to Schwartz's first novel, RESERVATION ROAD, only emphasizes the book's poor writing. The internal dialogue of Schwartz's characters is so infuriatingly full of speech making, aphorisms, and labored metaphors that you quickly lose patience with all of them, and that, unfortunately, extends to the poor narrators forced to inhabit them. You are meant to have sympathy for a family torn apart by a past accident and a present-day violent incident, but the writing and performances make it impossible to get on board with any of them. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

March 21, 2011
The literary tradition of the middle-class American male as a creaky vessel teetering on the verge of moral meltdown yet struggling to reconstruct himself has found its latest and arguably most adept practitioner in Schwartz (Reservation Road). Like Johnny Hake and Harry Angstrom before him, Dwight Arno is a man who has done wrong. A Connecticut tax lawyer disbarred after a fatal hit and run accident, he does not expect a chance at redemption, but it arrives in the form of his son, Sam, who makes a mad dash across the country and shows up at his estranged father's front door after a vicious bar fight puts an end to his dreams of baseball stardom. Pontificating discourses masquerading as stream-of-consciousness mar the narrative at times and inject a sanctimonious streak, but Schwartz is otherwise exceptional at describing the chemistry of desire, creating emotional tension, and making his characters feel more like flesh and blood than fictional constructs. Imaginative and taut, Schwartz's writing is seamless and infinitely inspired.




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