Jason's review
Lucky Man
by Ben Tanzer (Goodreads author!)
Jason's review
Lucky Man by Ben Tanzer (Goodreads author!)
Jason's review
rating:
Structurally similar to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, or Dills’s Sons of the Rapture contemporarily speaking, Ben Tanzer’s debut novel Lucky Man (Manx Media, 2007) splits the narration among the four chief characters, who are otherwise known as Gabe, Jake, Louie, and Sammy. And as the back of the book aptly puts it, “Lucky Man follows four friends from their final days of high school through their first couple of years out of college. Each has personal demons they are battling – anger, substance abuse, sexual identity, and detachment.” Most of their travails appear to stem from father/son relationships gone awry, and by the end, only one is left standing....
Read the rest in the July 2007 issue of decomP.
Read the rest in the July 2007 issue of decomP.
