John Dufresne
Auteur de Naked Came the Manatee
A propos de l'auteur
His novels Louisiana Power & Light & Love Warps the Mind a Little were New York Time Notable books of the Year. He lives in Dania, Florida. (Bowker Author Biography)
Crédit image: Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Séries
Œuvres de John Dufresne
Well Enough Alone 3 exemplaires
The Freezer Jesus [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Where Are You Dying Tonight? 1 exemplaire
Fluellen (Hungry Midnight) (Hungry Midnight) 1 exemplaire
Love Like Ours 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributeur — 200 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1948-01-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Worcester State College
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 2,129
- Popularité
- #12,093
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 64
- ISBN
- 61
- Favoris
- 5
It was written by a creative writing professor in Florida, with short chapters, so you can catch a quick read here and there. That's about the only good thing about this book. The subject itself was rather boring. It gets a 2 star because there's not a lot going on. This book heads back to my local Goodwill.
The setting is suppose to be Monroe, Louisiana, but you never get that feel. No accents, no southern scenaries, no nothing. The story centers around one main character, Billy Wayne Fontana, who followed his heart for love and left the priesthood before he was actually certified. He was searching for meaning and purpose in his life, but he never felt "fulfilled", which we all may experience in life from time-to-time, especially when we turn our back on God. Unfortunately, I never did develop feelings for any of the characters. This read brought no emotions out what-so-ever! No action really until the very last couple of short chapters where the last 3 Fontana men died.
But, of course, there's another Fontana in the near future because of his lusty feelings. The town people would still believe in the Fontana curse. God fearing people would believe it was all the bad decisions Billy Wayne made by following after lust instead of his heart. The scientists believe a genetic defect in their genes. Then there are those that believe the Fontanas were deposited there in Monroe, Louisiana by space aliens from Venus.
Unfortunately, the book doesn't really go into the Fontana's ancestral history. He just drops a few lines here and there in random odd spots in the story. So you don't even get a real good feeling or any ideas about Billy Wayne's earlier ancestry...just surface stuff....to even know why their is a cyrse on the Fontana name.… (plus d'informations)