BTW (2013)

By Jarett Kobek

168pp, Fiction

Rating:3/5

Notes

2019-10-06

A slim early novel (2013 I think) featuring some of the charaters from his later books. I enjoyed this, I enjoy Kobeks prose and I like his characters (though he doesn’t here have the chops in developing character motivation which he displays in eg. The Future Won’t Be Long which leads to some narrative gear grinding… of course in Only Americans… this is transmuted into a virtue) highlights in this one for me are the far-out readings of Victorian novels. I’m a fan of Victorian novels and far out readings.

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