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Gone To Amerikay (2012)

by Derek McCulloch(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1401223516 (ISBN13: 9781401223519)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: Superb. McCulloch crafts a three-part tale, as Irish immigrants descend on New York City in 1870, 1960 and 2010. Each narrative is beautifully grounded in its era, with crackling dialogue and period-specific social norms. And Colleen Doran - if there is a more diverse, better artist working in comics today, I can't name him (or her). She packs every page with so much detail that the reader can't help but fall into the era of the time and place. Without any captions to indicate timeframe changes, Doran's artwork enables readers to jump between eras without any hesitation. A superb book about music, immigrant struggles and times that history creates.
review 2: I wanted to like this book more than I did, and I'd probably give it two and a half stars if that were a... morevailable as an option on this site; then again, I gave a Robin Cook book, "Cure," three stars, so I can easily justify giving this one three stars, because 'tis a much better book than the Cook book.This book is features three interconnected stories that take place in different decades/centuries about being an Irish immigrant to New York City: Ciara O'Dwyer, a young mother in 1870; Johnny McCormack, a singer/actor in Greenwhich village in 1960; and Lewis Healy, an Irishman in Manhattan in 2010 who is unraveling the threads that tie these three stories together. So reading that annotation *points to the paragraph above* would make me interested in reading this book, and it has it's virtues: interesting drawings and some nice moments. But overall, I just wasn't convinced or affected enough, and I was never transported the way I wanted to be, or expect to be transported by a really great book. At times, this book felt cliched and predictable and I wasn't really drawn into the characters - and even though I appreciated the artwork, I wasn't drawn into the story or characters enough to get past thinking "Wow, that's really cool artwork!" Nonethelest, I think others might enjoy this book more than I did, and 'tis worth a go if one finds it at the library, though this isn't a book I'd suggest someone go out and buy. less

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