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Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine (2008)

by Ben Tanzer(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0981748104 (ISBN13: 9780981748108)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Orange Alert Press

review 1: It's just a young-love story: they meet & mince around, hurt each other & then, bruised... but don't let me spoil the fun. What matters is, so far as stories of young love are concerned, so's the Bob Dylan winner from which Ben Tanzer derives his title. So's many another engaging ditty, & many a good novel. What distinguishes MOST LIKELY YOU'LL GO YOUR WAY & I'LL GO MINE, indeed, is implied in that full-length title, a balancing act that this narrative mimics artfully. The opening drags a bit, a problem w/ such stock material (we're talking young love in NYC, though Tanzer wisely keeps his Manhattan seekers free of artistic pretensions), But by the 4th or 5th of these brief chapters the storytelling achieves the necessary velocity, as the wings of scene & speech extend... more to full length & beat up & down w/ a fine pacing. I mean the way the set-pieces match up, & the way the speakers pair off, there's humor & propulsion & a baroque shapeliness, inventively assembled & often glittering w/ some inset gem of a joke. Much of the effects are achieved via dialog, but there's also an admirable sidewalk catalogue or two, as lovers stroll their way towards something more serious. Seriousness, in fact, snaps its jaws more & more often as one gets deeper into YOUR WAY &...MINE. Addiction & abandonment, in various guises, haunt the latter half, & Tanzer raises a similar chill w/ the way he uses the World Trade towers. In this smartly-done exercise, we witness again how even young love can never exist free of timeless agonies.
review 2: Ben Tanzer gets it. He gets the current zeitgeist: pop culture, the hookups, the office chatter, friendships, the musical soundtrack of our lives, and relationships. He really gets relationships in spades, the stop-start, the awkward patches, the doubts, the sex, the conversations. Ben Tanzer gets the conversations dead on. His dialog is crisp, droll, rhythmic, stoned, dour, realistic. His dialog-driven novel is a dizzy ride into the precarious place where two human hearts try to cohere. Relationships are tough, except when they’re not. Ben Tanzer understands this and he gets it. In Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine, he gets it all right. less

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