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The Bend Of The World (2014)

by Jacob Bacharach(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0871406829 (ISBN13: 9780871406828)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

review 1: "A Bend in the World" is a very funny look at an aging slacker working in a downtown Pittsburgh corporation. The narrator, Peter Morrison, discovers that the firm he works for is being taken over by a huge multi-national conglomerate:;layoffs are in the works. At a party,he's introduced to the sleazy, yet charming corporate raider who'll be in charge of the (still secret) takeover. Said raider adopts Peter as a protege, taking him on louche adventures with his beautiful wife, a formerly famous artist. Introduce licenses for Bigfoot hunting, strange apparitions in the sky,inadvisable trysts, real Pittsburgh dialect and an ultra right wing conspiracy theorist/meth dealer and you have a very entertaining, well written first novel. While some of the elements (UFOs, murderous... more cabals) are ingredients of bad thrillers, Bacharach uses them deftly to make a book about a man faced with his limitations, and struggling to make sense of an irrational world.
review 2: An extremely interesting take on a coming of age story. As a man whose age is not quite as close to that of the protagonist, but still close enough to relate, I can empathize with much of what happens in this book. The subject matter may be a little out there, but its only there to portray the underlying themes of the book. A good read for anyone interested in modern day philosophy of corporate America. 4.5 out of 5 less

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