I couldn't finish this novel within a novel. The first half, about the manned-mission to Mars told in the first person was completely captivating--funny, moving and filled with Vonnegut-styled content and absurdity. (The book is dedicated to Vonnegut.) But the second part, which shifts back to ea...
This novel has all the makings of a book that I would love: space exploration: Mars colonization; astronaut zombies; dystopian futures; cousin IT on a killing ramage (really!); hell, it is even dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut. Knowing nothing about Rick Moody (he wrote Garden State (the book not the m...
On the outset, Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm appears to be a Generation X era relic about what it was like to grow up in the 1970’s. Any serious reader has probably read at least one of these type of stories before; stories chock full of ironic kitsch and facile observations on how screwed up the Me...
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Exuberance is the perfect descriptor for Elkin’s works. Like his bunkmate Bill Gass, his fictions swing to their own rhythms, refuse to conform to any cosily crafted preconception of a satisfying sellable sentence, and demonstrate a fearless dexterity over the English language that would make any...
Set in the fictional seaside town of St. Bostolphs, Massachusetts, we meet the Wapshot family. Written with such flair, we get to know many of the Wapshots at a deep level and wonder if we haven’t met them all personally at some of our own family gatherings.The Wapshots face birth and death, fina...