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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dog Years,
By Georgie Stillman (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Century's Son (Hardcover)
As I read this moving, and beautifuly written, accont of a family trying to put into a focus the suicide of their son, I kept re-reading the dog Prince's coments. The entire ankst of the family can be seen in the dog's (youthful) padding around seeking the lost son, and then her various thoghts about the family as she ages, and ... Can't reveal plot lines here. If I were a teacher, I would reccomend this book to young students. The incidence of teenage suicide is so real, and disturbing, that this novel, and the fully developed lives of the characters after the suicide, might be a powerful message.The sophisticated writing of this author indicates wide popular audinece, but somethow I don't think he will find it with this book. It brought many tears to my eyes, but I am old enought to This is a painful novel, from which comes no resolution, just hope, - which is what I think the author intended. GMS
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing that this book doesn't get more attention,
This review is from: Century's Son (Hardcover)
Century's Son was a truly rewarding read. if you enjoy rich characterization, then you will enjoy Boswell's writing. Few authors are able to create such textured characters with as much feeling and depth as Boswell does here. If anything, the only character that did not strike me as particularly real or original is Peter Kamenev, who is slightly stereotyped as the precocious, over-sexed, hyperbolic old man. Nevertheless, Kamenev if extremely enjoyable as a character as well.The only reason why people may not like this book is that there were no earth-shattering developments in the plot. Nothing truly happened to resolve the lingering tension in the book. But to me, that's precisely the point. The richness of the characters is not drowned out by a schmaltzy plot device. Every character is allowed to develop and reveal his faults at their own pace. They develop organically. You know that you've found a satisfying read when your chief complaint is that the book is too short!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great new novel from a writer who only gets better!,
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This review is from: Century's Son (Hardcover)
Boswell's new novel is, in short, the product of an experienced and risk-taking novelist working to the fullest extent of his talents. His usual abilities are on display -- heartbreaking characters, keen obervations, crisp and stirring prose -- yet every aspect has been upped a notch. CENTURY'S SON manages to capture the varied rhythms of life at this particular collision of time and place and shape them into a work of towering literary merit. I have read no better novel this year, and don't expect to read one as good for a very long time.
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