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All I Have In This World (2014)

by Michael Parker(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1616201622 (ISBN13: 9781616201623)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: I really loved this book. The characters are losers and burdened with loss, and a car with a lot of history helps to save them. There is a kind of tenderness for every thing here -- the landscape, the car, the harsh and damaged people, places and things we see every day. The novel's construction was a bit tantalizing -- snippets of characters touched by the car. Parker succeeds here in communicating the sacredness of life in the world, a theme I've found in his other work.
review 2: If I had to summarize this book's theme, I'd say it was about realizing that "everything is not about you" and simultaneously, "you are responsible for your life". The story is told through a vehicle (literally a blue buick), a woman who has been fleeing her past (a boyfriend w... moreho killed himself when she broke off her relationship and an abortion) and a man who has gone bankrupt from a badly designed business plan to have a nature center for venus fly traps. As you can guess from the players in this drama, there is some humor. And it's an intriguing story. The whole Buick thing seems contrived but by the end of the book, it sort of works. This is more of a cerebral book (mostly about what people are thinking at any given time) then it is about anything happening. less

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