Jack Boys edition by Michael Ramberg Literature Fiction eBooks
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Jack LaFleur was a self-destructive, Kerouac-style wanderer, a secret poet and, according to his own legend, a bit character in Kerouac’s last great novel, Big Sur. At the end of the Sixties, Jack married Carrie Anderson and attempted to settle down in the American suburbs to raise a family. But at best he could achieve only an uneasy truce with the land of shopping malls and frontage roads, and he died years later a bitter and frustrated alcoholic.
Three years after his death, as Jack’s Boys opens, he continues to be a towering presence in the lives of his surviving family members. Matt, the oldest child and narrator, is a shy copy editor whose romantic notions of women doom all his relationships before they start. The youngest, Theo, is a brilliant, media obsessed high school student who may or may not be following in his father’s self-destructive ways.
When Theo LaFleur impulsively hitchhikes across the country to visit the grandfather he’s never met, he discovers a secret Jack never revealed to his family Jack was a poet whose work was thought destroyed, but is now a valuable commodity in a mini-renaissance of Beat poetry.
Jack Boys edition by Michael Ramberg Literature Fiction eBooks
I was led to this particular author after coming across a short story of his in a publication called Forty Stories, and I'm glad I did. Mr. Ramberg has a talent for creating living, breathing characters that seem as real as the person sitting next to you in the coffee shop. The titular boys--men--in this novel are sons of a near-mythical figure of the Beat movement, not quite famous but also not unknown. The father, Jack, is lauded as a poetic genius by those who didn't know him quite as well as his family, and the irony in that is so striking when you discover, along and along, what kind of a man he really was. There is a fluidity to the voice and style of the prose, slipping from the present into memory as though it were happening at that moment, that the author has executed with skill and care. My one criticism would be that in some instances, the dialogue is less than realistic, but I suspect that may have been the author's intention to begin with. All in all, the story nearly feels like a living dream, the sort that sucks you in and takes you into the eyes of a stranger who is only trying to make sense of the turmoil left in the wake of his father--Jack.Product details
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Jack Boys edition by Michael Ramberg Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I was led to this particular author after coming across a short story of his in a publication called Forty Stories, and I'm glad I did. Mr. Ramberg has a talent for creating living, breathing characters that seem as real as the person sitting next to you in the coffee shop. The titular boys--men--in this novel are sons of a near-mythical figure of the Beat movement, not quite famous but also not unknown. The father, Jack, is lauded as a poetic genius by those who didn't know him quite as well as his family, and the irony in that is so striking when you discover, along and along, what kind of a man he really was. There is a fluidity to the voice and style of the prose, slipping from the present into memory as though it were happening at that moment, that the author has executed with skill and care. My one criticism would be that in some instances, the dialogue is less than realistic, but I suspect that may have been the author's intention to begin with. All in all, the story nearly feels like a living dream, the sort that sucks you in and takes you into the eyes of a stranger who is only trying to make sense of the turmoil left in the wake of his father--Jack.
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