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The Sterile Cuckoo (2013)

by John Nichols(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393348490 (ISBN13: 9780393348491)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Oh, man. This book was given to me by an ex-boyfriend who knew I would love it. I loved it so much, maybe as much as I loved him. Then he would laugh at me whenever I would talk about it (which was often), and say, "Oh, you just wish that *you* were Pookie, don't you?" in a nasty, derisive, and withholding way. That was true. I did wish that, but it still feels like a punch in the gut when I think about it all these years later.And that's kind of what this book it like: a love story that you know will end tragically, but you still root for them, and it's kind of a punch in the gut, but worth it for the ride.Plus, it was my introduction to John Nichols, and his stuff is all amazing.
review 2: It's always interesting to me to have become familiar with an auth... moreor's work and then go back to read their first novel, as it was with Nichols' first work, the story of a likable college couple: Jerry and Pookie. They sure seem to have a lot going for them until they drink their relationship, and apparently themselves, into near-oblivion and oblivion, respectively (though I'm not certain about the latter). The characters are equally quirky, but the novel not as uproariously funny as his later works. A pleasant afternoon read out on my portale on a sunny spring day, but puzzling in that I have never really understood, despite being a physician, what it is about the "drink-until-I-vomit-and-then-drink-some-more" that meets peoples' needs. As a physician, I unfortunately get to see much of what people destroy in themselves through addiction, and this novel underscores those same losses.Will Jerry put together for himself a life worth living? Did Pookie? We are left with that uncertainty in this coming of age, falling in love for the first time, poignant novel. less

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