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Then Came The Evening: A Novel (2009)

by Brian Hart(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1608190145 (ISBN13: 9781608190140)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: Fairly uncompelling narrative with seemingly at face-value characters that occasionally becomes something more (the prison sequences especially). A main issue that sullied the book for me was Hart's need to explain or note tonal and thematic undercurrents, as if his dialogue couldn't stand on its own. Especially in a sparse and minimalist novel like this one, it should be 'show, not tell'.
review 2: Then Came The Evening was a Goodreads win for me. Thank you! This is a story about three very dyfunctional people. Brandy who was a Viet Vet and killed a policeman, sent to prison then released, goes to live with his son he had recently found out he had. His exwife is also living in the house that Tracy, the son, was redoing. These three people seem to stay dyf... moreunctional through the entire book, their choice of friends don't seem to be much better. I thought the book was slow, more detail on the scenery than I thought was needed, plus all the fights and tumbles Brandy took he seemed to survive them for some one that was deathly sick. Brandy dies from natural causes, Tracy moves out and on with an older women, Iona moves on once again but not until she tells her friend her burning secrets. Maybe Iona's ending part will be a start for another book by Brian Hart, as I felt the ending did leave me hanging. less

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