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The Inverted Forest (2011)

by John Dalton(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

141659602X (ISBN13: 9781416596028)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This is a beautiful novel by St. Louis author John Dalton. It tells the story of Wyatt Huddy, a young man with a disfigured face (due to Apert's syndrome) and what transpires when he is hired as a camp counselor for mentally handicapped adults in rural Missouri. Suffice it to say that a lot happens. Dalton's work reminds of another favorite midwestern author, Kent Haruf. If there's such a thing as a midwestern novel, this is a shining example.
review 2: For the first 90 pages or so, I marveled at how engaged I was in this novel with no apparent plot or actual character development. Seriously, I was interested. It starts to coalesce into something though by the end of the book's first part, which is about 65-70% through. The second part, then, feels almost li... moreke an extended denouement. One of the best points in the novel for me is the Marcy Bittman storyline that takes place in 2011 in the book's second part. I also found interesting the case that's made for Wyatt and Harriet's experience of the night of the event. I was not particularly satisfied with the ending, but by that point, I'm not sure that it much mattered what happened. So, in the end, it fizzles, I think, and that diminishes the experience of the book for me from four stars to three. I will probably read his other novel though. less

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