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Some novels are written as if from a gimmick, a literary conceit, a selling pitch, and some are written because the author, Ancient Mariner-like, has no choice. FLICK is of the latter type and a drifters tale, but nevermind all that. The author seems, for the most part, unaware of either literary conventions or that he is whole-cloth reconceiving that disappearing American archetype. Written in a broad and genuine and distinctively American voice, it is apparent from the first few pages that whats driving the first-person narrative is a great moral complexity: Each of the dozen or so significant characters is a damaged soul, damaged by childhood, by the culture, by others or by him- or herself, but all would anyway do good in the world. They would be good friends or wives or lovers or workers or, even, citizens, but the damage inside leaves them with no feel for being so. They try, but theyre clumsy at it and make a mess of their lives and hearts and right and wrong and how to judge, then, not so much them, but the moral commonplaces of which were so certain? With bravura storytelling, the thirty-one chapters are chronologically backwards. Beginning with the end of a quixotic adve

Author

T.D. Badyna

Publisher

Whistle-Bit Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780615832425

Rating

3.43 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14