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American Dream Machine (2013)

by Matthew Specktor(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1935639447 (ISBN13: 9781935639442)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Tin House Books

review 1: The real achievement of ADM is the choice of point of view, and the amount of leeway Specktor allows his protagonist when conjuring up scenes at which he couldn't have been present. Nate's pain at not knowing what really happened with his father figures is palpable throughout, which is why we believe implicitly what he comes up with. His loneliness prompts him toward a truth he can never really know, but is all the more interesting for that. He's a seer in the tradition of Darl in As I Lay Dying, and for much the same reason. He's unloved, and is forced to invent his own purpose. That's fiction, baby. I'll be looking for the follow-up from this author.
review 2: This is a wonderful book. I've loved reading it. I love how effortlessly the narrative slips from fi... morerst person to the narrators third person narration of things he could never have seen. No apologies made and it's never confusing. Sometimes I felt the story could have been told in half the time it took, but then again, maybe the immensity of it, like the immensity of beau rosenwald, is what made it so satisfying. less

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