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3.0 out of 5 stars
Foible-Bashing,
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This review is from: Alpha Omega (Hardcover)
Max Childers' second novel is billed as darkly hilarious. And there is some laugh-out-loud to it. Mr. Childers has a keen eye for the foibles of the South, particularly the Pretension Belt around the Charlotte and Myrtle Beach. The plot of Alpha Omega is satisfying, if a bit formulaic: Protagonist Bobby improbably becomes a world-class rock-and-roller in jail, begins to see himself as the Second Elvis, but sells out his talent to a series of beady-eyed exploiters, beginning with his prospective stepfather and moving on to the clutches of a millionaire and a lady MBA whose frigor, snottiness, and barely controlled lust are all fair game for the noble-savage allure of Bobby (rechristened Alpha Omega, the Eternal Elvis, for commercial purposes). Salvation in the end is found through Badness and a .22 revolver. Oh, well, OK, but an awful crowd of straw men and women are demolished with blunter weapons by the author, who apparently never saw a smartass northerner (or redneck) he didn't despise. I couldn't find a good, or even interesting, side to any of the sorry parade of dopes, jerks, Republicans, and other villains Bobby encounters. What ever happened to rounded characters? What ever happened to affection for the part of the country one lives and works in? I think Mr. Childers got up on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon Line the day he wrote this.
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Alpha Omega by Max Childers (Hardcover - September 1, 1993)
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