false 2442155 2 Roger John Ellory's <I>Candlemoth</I> makes a decent but not entirely successful stab at being several novels. It is a protest against the death penalty and about inhuman treatment of prisoners that dramatises both issues by showing us Daniel, who has been railroaded to the electric chair over the brutal murder of his best friend. Inevitably though, Daniel is so passive and battered by his situation that the book can show us little except his pain. Offstage, it is a thriller about the process whereby he was framed and might be acquitted, but Ellory de-emphasises this aspect of the plot in favour of Daniel's suffering. <p> Much of the book is taken up in a memoir of the 60s, when Daniel and his best friend Nathan had a relationship that crossed racial boundaries in a south torn by conflict and when they went on the run to avoid being drafted into an unjust war. The book is vivid in its sense of the time, but again there is a sense of Daniel as someone who never really lives his own life--even in love and friendship he is the person to whom emotions and events happen. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I> 2449349 17 7 2003 Candlemoth total:6|5:4|4:1|3:1| 6 27 19 4 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 00:39:01 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 00:43:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 00:42:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 00:55:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 04:16:08 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:54:17 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 29 10:57:33 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 26 04:02:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 20:20:57 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:20:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 25 10:38:19 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 10:38:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 13:49:44 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:49:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 07:00:33 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:00:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 11 13:18:50 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:18:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 06:40:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 06:40:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 29 12:17:07 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:17:07 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 21 06:42:42 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:42:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 07 11:39:57 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 11:40:00 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 07 03:35:55 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 03:35:55 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 14 05:22:20 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 05:22:23 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jun 06 10:15:01 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 10:15:01 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 16 17:56:44 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 17:56:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri May 16 03:48:34 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 03:48:42 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 02 02:25:32 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 02:25:36 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2442155