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In the Blind

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Eugene Marten's novel IN THE BLIND is the searing tale of a man's, at first tentative, struggle to exist; there are so many things he could succumb to, so many obstacles in the way of his maintaining even the starkest existence in the world he finds himself in after being released from prison. The fact that he learns to make keys, instead of guaranteeing him a future in locksmithing, only complicates things, and at the end we don't know what he will do with himself. He seems optimistic for the first time even though he has just been through something horrible. I highly recommend this book, as well as Marten's first novel, WASTE, which is even darker.

This novel is dark and gritty, certainly unblinking. The combination of Marten's superior craftsmanship and an industrial city's underbelly results in one rare jewel of a novel.

This book would fit easily on a shelf next to _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ or perhaps _Deliverence_. It surely belongs in every contemporary fiction reader's collection, and I dare say, on the nightstand of the aspiring writer.

Now buy the book.