Michael Mewshaw
Auteur de Lying With the Dead
Œuvres de Michael Mewshaw
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- Nom légal
- Mewshaw, Michael
- Date de naissance
- 1943
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
Rome, Italy
Key West, Florida, USA
London, England, UK - Études
- University of Virginia (Ph.D., literature)
University of Maryland - Professions
- journalist
administrator
travel writer - Organisations
- University of Texas, Austin (Director / Creative Writing Program)
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Island Tempest par Michael Mewshaw
This is out of my 'normal read' zone but fun. Frank Pritchard is still depressed about his wife's death a year ago. He's bored and depressed and living on a exclusive island resort community in Florida. It's a recipe for trouble and his main ingredient turns out to be the paraplegic who lives next door. Turns out he lost the use of his legs when a fellow inmate came at him with a homemade knife. He's living on the island in the witness protection program. This recipe cooks up some fun.
Sadly a book that need not have been written. The author takes advantage of a one-time friendship with a more successful, now deceased, author to sell a book and get revenge. "He had hurt me." Michael Mewshaw also uses this book to air complaints about his birth family and publishing history. I'm glad I was able to borrow this book from the library and not further enrich the author.
I confess I didn't finish this book. For the simple fact that it was boring. Which is very surprising considering the countries the author traveled in. There are way, way, way to many references to author's and books that add nothing to the narrative. The author is mildly funny but not in the dry manner of an English author, the often times uproariously funny manner of an Australian writer, the cranky cantankerous way of Paul Theroux, nor does he have the writing talent of A.A. Gill. Also not much happened at least as far as I made it into the book.… (plus d'informations)
Very uneven novel which I thought started out with a huge degree of promise but ultimately descended into a rather predictable conclusion. The protagonist narrator initially enthralled me, but halfway through the book I felt that he was someone different.
Still, it was worth reading.
Still, it was worth reading.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 396
- Popularité
- #61,231
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 61
- Langues
- 1