story about a troubled man finding his way
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It isn't a bad book,,
By James Hercules Sutton (Des Moines, IA (USA)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Table Money (Hardcover)
but it isn't his best either, because it takes a hundred pages of anecdotes to get going & then nothing dramatic happens until p. 186. Unlike his other books, Breslin uses little dialogue and leans heavily on narrative, as if trying to put down everything he knows. He knows a great deal, about New York, about the Irish in New York, about why New York is New York. He doesn't much like what New York has become. The best of his book is how he makes a woman's struggle to control her destiny seem real. Maybe it was necessary for him to put this into historical context, but his story might have had more impact if he had omitted some of the history of one Irish family. Maybe he needed to warm up, He spent a long time on the book--"ten years to write," says the dust jacket. What we have here is a writer trying to straighten himself out as he learns his art. Worth reading as another illustratation of Oscar Wilde's saw, "The Irish are wonderful, except, of course, to each other." The whole history of Ireland lurks in that epithet & in everything Breslin writes.
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Jimmy Breslin is one of those writers with whom people invaiably get their politics intertwined. A staple in NYC for 4 decades, his columns have stuck a burr in the saddle of the powerful for many years{and Jimmy lets you know that, too, which contributes to his persona}In table money, he looks , in microcosm at the irish immigrant expierence in America through one family, at the horrific cost of alcoholism, and at one truly heroic woman. There are no easy, quick fixes in this novel. Owens decent into alcohol is not pleasant ,the descriptions of the sandhogs{tunnel diggers} is brilliant, and lower middle class life in Queens was absoltuely dead on. I think in many ways this book was a homage to Breslins late wife, who put up with his alcoholism for many years{his eulogy was one of the more moving things I have read in my life}. I believe firmly that Breslin is one of the simply great writers of our time, after you get pst the Damon Runyon bit, and trully, almsot spectacularly underrated because of his politics. An excellent, moving novel, though since it touches on so many things that are persoanl with me, I can indentify very strongly with the characters. Anyway, an excellent, superbly written novel for an american original.
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