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Big Ray (2012)

by Michael Kimball(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1608198545 (ISBN13: 9781608198542)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: This is beautiful. I laughed hard in spots and then felt weird about laughing. But I'm also in the dead dad club. Kimball's pacing, short bursts, tone, repetition, make this like a sort of song. One where people don't start singing along, but they listen, and they think about things. They react with some odd personal, shameful reaction. Having a dead dad does change things. "It's lunchtime and my dad is dead. I get the mail and my dad is dead."
review 2: Written in a series of half-thought snippets, this was an unusual little book. Big Ray, who has just died, was an abusive tank of a man. His son is writing this book as a kind of catharsis – reliving his painful childhood in brief bursts. I have a feeling on any given day my opinion of this book could fluc... moretuate – today it only gets a 2. I picked it up because it was one of the library’s recommended reads for the month. I’ve never read Kimball before, so I’m not sure if all of his work is this strange or not. At this point I have 387 books on my “to read” list, so I probably won’t be curious enough to find out any time soon. less

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