"On a Sunday morning in the June of my thirty-first year I open the front door of our house looking for the newspaper and find a man standing out there: stoop-shouldered, bent, blotched-skinned, his hair and beard tangled, staring with the big, wet eyes of an animal."
-- Blue River by Ethan Canin.
This is Canin's first novel and second book after his acclaimed collection of short stories, Emperor of the Air. I enjoyed his more recent novel, America, America, but this one is not doing anything for me. I can't seem to engage with it.
This is my my "blue" choice for the Colorful Reading Challenge. Once I finish this, I will have completed the challenge. Woo hoo!
Congrats on making it through a challenge! What a feat. The opening sentence of this one has me intrigued...
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Sorry it's not working for you. I'll stay tuned to see if you make it through. I've never read Ethan Canin but he seems like the kind of writer I should be reading, or at least try.
ReplyDeleteHis skin was tangled, too? Uh, pass.
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Enjoy the home stretch on the Colorful Reading Challenge. That was a good one!
JG -- you caught MY typo. I fixed it now. It's his hair and BEARD that were tangled. OOPS.
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