A serio-comic novel about a young man who once wore blue chambray work shirts, was skinny, and knew things beyond question, and who now wonders about flesh and love, despair and food, and anger.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This first novel offers a graphic guided tour of the meat-packing and -selling industry from the down-and-out perspective of an ex-preppie, ex-student activist. "Allen has a good ear for raunchy working-class vernacular, but he squanders his obvious literary talents on endless self-rumination, leaving little room for full-bodied characters to emerge," maintained PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing novel, doesn't spare the reader a thing.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Straight Through the Night (Paperback)
The loneliness and reality portrayed in this book is unforgettable. It has been a year since I've read this book and I can't forget Chuck, his story, and alienation. Not a word is wasted; even the chapter titles add to the flesh, blood, veins, and human emotion depicted in this book. Through the character of Chuck, Allen makes his point about romance, New York, meat, and people with poignancy and without apology.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
remarkable prose,
By A Customer
This review is from: Straight Through the Night: A Novel (Hardcover)
Ed Allen writes as beautifully and as haunting as Nabokov. Read this book as well as his other novel, Mustang Sally, and you'll know what I'm talking about. Great stuff.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Heartwrenching Tale . . .,
By A Customer
This review is from: Straight Through the Night (Paperback)
This book cut right to my heart. The book overall is a downer, but the progression of the main character is significant. It made me wonder how far that I could be from his long series of disappointments and experiences in my own life experience. It is realistic and heart-wrenching. One wonders how many people suffer his fate in our society today.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
