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The Last Talk With Lola Faye (2010)

by Thomas H. Cook(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0151014078 (ISBN13: 9780151014071)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Every time I read a Thomas H. Cook book I'm always struck anew by just how good of a writer he is. He creates these terrific seemingly simple yet upon closer examination infinitely intricate dramas of ordinary lives visited by violent crimes and the way those visitations come to be and remain to echo and haunt. So to say that at the heart of this book is a murder mystery would be accurate, but also terribly insufficient. At the heart of this story is a heart. A heart of a man who, despite achieving moderate success in life, has been emotionally stunted by the events of his youth and a conversation that brings him back to life. Cook is in top form here, the plotting throws surprise curveballs just as you think you have it figured out, the writing is superb, humanity with i... morets small kindnesses and outrageous cruelties of everyday life observed with outmost poignancy. This was by far the most emotionally engaging book I've read in a while. Impossible to put down, read in it one evening. Highly recommended.
review 2: Like other novels by Thomas H Cook this one deals with regret and lives ruined by one cataclysmic event in the past. They usually have a lone narrator looking back at the past from towards the end of his life, but here we have a dialogue between a man and a woman (though recorded from the male narrator's viewpoint) which almost feels like a two handed play. However I found neither of these characters particularly likeable and I didn't feel the poignancy I have experienced in Cook's other work. less

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