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Who is Dev Degraw? Wonderdog, a comedic novel by Inman Majors, takes us along as ne’er-do-well Degraw wanders through a disintegrating life. On the surface, Dev is a lot of things. He’s the 33-year-old son of the long-time governor of Alabama. He’s a divorced parent now chasing other women and pursuing his father’s female press […] About a third of the way through this book, I was still thinking: I just don’t get it. What I didn’t get is the praise for the book and the fact it won this year’s Pulitzer Prize. I must still admit that I sometimes think I just don’t get “literature.” But the last half of […] This book is, quite simply, magnificent. As I’ve noted, I don’t read much standard fiction. And I’ve never read anything of McEwan’s. The buzz on Saturday, though, led me to pick it up. It is a masterpiece. The basic premise is a Saturday in the life of a London neurosurgeon. The vulnerability we feel in […] I don’t read a lot of novels. As a result, it’s unusual for me to read two in a row, let alone two first novels. That’s happened in the last week, due in part to the fact these were slim volumes that provided breaks from the 600-page biography of Leonardo da Vinci that is pointing […] Once in a while you come across a book that grabs and enthralls you. The Society of Others by William Nicholson is one of those. While I admit I haven’t yet figured out the ending, getting there is quite a ride. The novel is Kafkaesque, existential tale of the ordeals of a young unnamed Brit […] |
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