Michael's review
Beautiful Children: A Novel
by Charles Bock
Michael's review
Beautiful Children: A Novel by Charles Bock
Michael's review
rating:
Charles Bock can write well, so well that he has no excuse for several one-dimensional characters that no amount of detailed back-story can save from irrelevance, a very stock treatment of strippers and modern-primitive runaways, simplified cause-and-effect character development, and a focal point - this missing kid - who remains a complete cipher. That can't be the point. Is that the point? That said, the book is very fun to read, amazingly so considering that there's almost no plot, and what forward motion exists is fractured into moments of hyper-epiphany and emotional stardust.
