Choose a book by its cover. Everyone knows that this technique has a very high risk. But at the moment of truth, we all do. Moreover, some of them even choose a book by its cover properly. Damn editors happy! In this game, of Asteroid Books takes the cake. Covers like Street Station, 120 inevitably make you throw your reading. Furthermore, when the story follows, as in the Leo Malet book, everything looks perfect.
But either way, sometimes it is hit. Or at least not entirely. That happens with Jernigan of David Gates . This 67 year old American was able to publish at 44 his first novel and get her to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. The novel won a book of characters and losers, both of which are particularly valued in contemporary American literature. The way to tell the story of David Gates is addictive, entertaining and fast stroke. But the story does not hold expectations about him were created.
Jernigan is the name of the protagonist of this story of self-destruction. From a high social and cultural spheres, has a special relationship with alcohol that completely dominates their vital status, and dominated his wife. With memories of the family tragedy experienced by him and his son, Jernigan was launched to try to get your life in the only way he knows how: by doing nothing and hoping that everything will be resolved alone. His appetite for life and his disregard for his teenage son, Danny, and all that surrounds it seems that miraculously is being rewarded by being suddenly transformed into a new head of household. However, Jernigan is someone capable be destroyed many times in a row and an even faster pace than expected.
As can be seen, Jernigan character is the epitome of modern American literature today. Something that works commercially many times but that literally is much more complex. Only a drunk, but with a very high cultural level that allows the author to demonstrate cuantÃsimo cultural level is through the inclusion in the story of several references to pop culture or literature. Jernigan, the character is simply the means by which David Gates has been used to show off all that culture is at the margins of the mass and that he loves or simply funny. And so it seems, works to the extent that the publisher has opened up a My Space the novel itself. All book reviews are very good, but in reality it costs to move from approval.
Moreover, Jernigan is a drunk who, as such, is not sane enough to understand and meet your fellow story-his son Danny, his new partner and her daughter-have more problems than it. It is a type-loser by nature, you can drop nice at first, but that will not bear long story, becoming unbearably tedious.
As we say, is a fun book that is well told in a funny way that causes an addiction to reading large enough to fight him a few more minutes sleep each night.
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