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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)
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English
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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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geri
I really had a hard time getting into this book and found its ending totally unsatisfactory
Meg
The author writes about our human failings but looks at them with kind eyes.
Rea84
Read it to see how it would end - did not enjoy it much!
86409119
I don't know the point of the book.
HungerGamesObsessed
Didn't finish, sorry
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