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At End Of Day (2000)

At End of Day (2000)

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0151003580 (ISBN13: 9780151003587)
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English
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houghton mifflin harcourt

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SPOILERS BELOW:This is one of those books I was very impressed with in terms of ambition and craft, but ultimately unsatisfied with. I'll admit I went to the library with the intention of picking up "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (his famous one) but got stuck with this. His style is very odd. I'd read he was 'dialogue-heavy' but that doesn't even begin to describe. 80% of the novel is quotes-within-quotes, alternating between characters who speak, at the turn of a dime, in both the past and present tense. His 'objective-narrator' descriptions of environments/ scenes are absurdly technical and unnecessarily detailed. My main gripe is with the tagline on the front cover - "A Novel of Suspense". Nope! The whole story is written to convince you that McKeach is too good to be caught. At the end, he sees that the fix is in and evades capture, staying one step ahead of the game. The thing the author said would most likely happen happened. I was not suspended.There's some very good work here, mostly in Higgins' portrayal of some engaging characters (Cistaro, McKeach, Farrier) and some incredible (though at times exhausting) dialogue. On to Eddie Coyle next.Sidebar: Mamet is a huge fan of Higgins, dating back many years. Windbag dialogue writers unite!!

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Enter the world of George V. Higgins at your peril. He creates wonderful and maddening plotlines in large part based on what appear to be long, meandering statements by characters that both provide insights into the character and advance the story----all in a strange, almost mesmerizing kind of way. At first, one may wonder---why am I reading the reminiscences of this gangster who's going on and on about his life, packed with apparently random digressions. Higgins cares about his characters, even respects them, even while sometimes mocking them in his descriptions of their foibles---and the character and plot development mutually support each other---beautiful!I should mention that the Higgins milieu is cops, criminals, of all levels of their respective hierarchies in Boston.
—Carol

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