These collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart, neurotic, somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound. Messud gracefully intertwines the stories of three friends, attractive, entitled ish Brown graduates "torn between Big Ideas and a party" but falling behind in the contest for public rewards and losing the struggle for personal contentment.
The vibrant supporting cast includes a deliciously drawn literary seducer "without question, a great man" and two ambitious interlopers, teeming with malign energy, whose arrival on the scene propels the action forward. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. The third installment, following "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day" , in the serial epic of Frank Bascombe -- flawed husband, fuddled dad, writer turned real estate agent and voluble first-person narrator.
Once again the action revolves around a holiday. This time it's Thanksgiving the Florida recount grinds toward its predictable outcome, and Bascombe, now 55, battles prostate cancer and copes with a strange turn in his second marriage.
The story, which unfolds over three days, is filled with incidents, some of them violent, but as ever the drama is rooted in the interior world of its authentically life-size hero, as he logs long hours on the highways and back roads of New Jersey, taking expansive stock of middle-age defeats and registering the erosions of a brilliantly evoked landscape of suburbs, strip malls and ocean towns.
The antic ghost of Nabokov hovers over this buoyantly literate first novel, a murder mystery narrated by a teenager enamored of her own precocity but also in thrall to her father, an enigmatic itinerant professor, and to the charismatic female teacher whose death is announced on the first page.
Each of the 36 chapters is titled for a classic by authors ranging from Shakespeare to Carlo Emilio Gadda , and the plot snakes ingeniously toward a revelation capped by a clever "final exam. This intense, at times searing memoir revisits the author's rough-and-tumble Wisconsin girlhood, spent on the wrong side of the tracks in the company of her father, a Vietnam vet who began his tour as "a cocksure country boy" but returned "wild and haunted," unfit for family life and driven to extremes of philandering, alcoholism and violence.
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