Kevin Wilson (9)
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While laced with the stuff of tearing heartache and a dosed with bustling helpings of shaggy-dog comedy, the Route is always carried and redeemed by Peter's own narrative voice, a voice that is alive with contradictions. Peter is overeducated and underpaid. Peter says that "timing is everything" but is constantly missing the boat. Peter's soul is haunted by failure, but he remains optimistic.
In Peter's voice, Kevin Wilson does a service to his readers. He has the ability to be elegant and folksy, cruel and loving and distinctly American (distinctly Floridian, to be more precise) in a way that reminds me of (of all people) Larry McMurtry, an author I'm very fond of.
If all this sounds a little too highfalutin, I don't mean it to be, it's fun, smart and the plot is neither abstract nor absurdist (although there are absurd moments). Read it while drinking in a bar. Preferably a bar in Florida.… (lisätietoja)