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Six Figures
A disturbing novel of domestic unease, part thriller and part psychological drama, from a young American writer of exceptional talent.
Warner Lutz isn't sure how he got where he is, but he's not especially happy to be there: mid-thirties, married, two kids, dead-end job in fund-raising, small house, old Honda. He and his wife, Megan, have just moved to Charlotte, North Caro...more
Warner Lutz isn't sure how he got where he is, but he's not especially happy to be there: mid-thirties, married, two kids, dead-end job in fund-raising, small house, old Honda. He and his wife, Megan, have just moved to Charlotte, North Caro...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
June 4th 2001
by Mariner Books
(first published 2000)
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The back cover blurb claims this is "part thriller and part psychological drama." The second part is true, and the first is blurbspeak, at which Fred rolls his eyes if asked. Yes, Megan Lutz, at her job in a Charlotte art gallery, is struck on the head from behind halfway through the novel and spends part of the novel in a coma, and even when recovered is unable to identify her attacker, and yes her husband Warner, newly hired fundraising director of a nonprofit, is known by all, even his parent...more
I've recently completed reading every book available by Richard Yates (started all this a year before the movie came out (the movie would have been ok except for the terrible sound track) and was happy to find this excellent book by Fred G. Leebron, who, by the way, like my friend Ray DiPalma (who was at the Iowa Program at the same time as Yates) is also a graduate of the Iowa writer's program. Sure, anyone could quibble about this or that, but the book is definitely in the Yates tradition of t...more
From time to time, publishers send me books in hopes that I'll add a bit about them on these pages. This is just such a book. I knew nothing about it so I started with the acknowledgements. There, in black and white, was a thank you to Christie Taylor who grew up right next door to me! She has an art gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina and the wife in this novel works in an art gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Wild. Anyway, the book itself is a dark look at the world of relationships. Warn...more
I don't quite get this book, it feels really formulaic because the characters feel too rigid. I finished it because the story was interesting but....the store did not resolve itself.
This may be the most depressing book I've ever read. Well-written, but just a complete downer and not enjoyable to read.
Horribly depressing and very dry and slow- does not develop the characters
This is a novel set in Charlotte, NC (although it could be anytown, USA, really), about a man struggling with the pressures of suburban American life. With a wife and two small children, a stressful job raising money for a non-profit, and financial pressures, he is preoccupied with achieving success, by society's standards, but he is also sick of it all. When his wife becomes the victim of an accident, he becomes a suspect and the reader is left to wonder, did he or didn't he?
This is a great done-in-a-day book examining the anxieties of marital life and what would really happen in a family if a sudden tragedy occurred. The stuff of a "Law & Order" episode is here made frighteningly real when a husband is accused of attacking his wife: How do their parents deal with each other? What do the kids think? Not so much a who-done-it but a how-do-you-get-over-it. Very engaging.
"Six Figures" by Fred G. Leebron is a story about a man and his family/work life and all he feels is lacking. From the very beginning of the book you can tell how stressed out and bitter he is with everything. Things change and go crazy when there is an attempted murder on his wife and he is the prime suspect.
I would maybe give this 2 1/2 stars. It held my interest for the most part but it just seemed to be missing the meat and bones of a really good novel for me. it seemed to flip flop through the emotions of each character and not really explain or give them any real depth. overall, nice try and good read.
I plan on giving this book another chance someday, but when I read it a few years back, it was so difficult to follow and ultimately plot-less that it's haunted me since.
Weird plot. I was confused...maybe it was too deep for me. I thought maybe it was going to be more financial than it was....
Good caracter development in a bad marriage. A tought situation with an attack and the husband gets accused.
Sep 25, 2007
Elyssa
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of Little Children
Shelves:
fiction
This is written in the same vein of Little Children and almost as funny and entertaining.
I usually love dysfunctional family stories, but this was decidedly meh.
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