allison's review
Tender As Hellfire
by Joe Meno
allison's review
Tender As Hellfire by Joe Meno
allison's review
rating:
bookshelves:
chicago,
fiction,
tradition
The Joe Meno 4th of July holiday reading tradition continues for the fourth year in a row! I read the recently rereleased/reedited Akashic Books version of the text, and absolutely loved it. It may compete with Hairstyles of the Damned for my favorite Meno. It's about 10-20 pages too long, but incredibly sensitive and well done in general. It's his best achievement, so far, at marrying the noirish/potboiler form to the sadness and fumbling, precocious wisdom of a bunch of kids straight out of Salinger.
