James Charlesworth
Autor(a) de The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) James Charlesworth, born 1977, and James H. Charlesworth, born 1940, are different authors. Please do not combine them.
Obras por James Charlesworth
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Charlesworth, James [no middle name]
- Data de nascimento
- 1977-05-26
- Local de nascimento
- Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
State College, Pennsylvania, USA - Educação
- Emerson College (MFA)
Penn State University (AB) - Nota de desambiguação
- James Charlesworth, born 1977, and James H. Charlesworth, born 1940, are different authors. Please do not combine them.
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 21
- Popularidade
- #570,576
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 3
This book is an impressive literary debut. I love a dark story, and this one fits that category. If you need to love your characters in order to love the book, this one may not be for you, but all of them are well developed with interesting storylines. Their professions include a minor league baseball player, a stripper, and a bush pilot. The titular character is not so much an abusive man, but one who is neglectful of his offspring’s emotional needs and uncaring about their desires (or anyone’s that stand in his way of financial success).
This book is surprisingly feminist for a male writer, and distinctly questions the American capitalistic ideals while at the same time is an ode to place. Geography plays a huge role in the story. In fact, perhaps, it plays too big a role. The descriptions of place are extremely well done and evocative, but they also impede the pace to the point where I was tempted to skim (which I resisted).
My other concern while reading this book is that the narration often takes place in the present, but has characters recalling the past. These past events, unfortunately, are often a lot more interesting than the present day. By relating them in this way, they lose the impact and immediacy they otherwise would have had. There’s some very good, original scenes in here that deserved more time, more detail, and more dialogue than they were afforded.… (mais)