The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
A Science Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction book. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs...
Launched into existence by Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river’s banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction’s promises to the freed...
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We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits. Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel // {Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own. Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel // But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms. Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel //
This was a rather slow and boring read. I just couldn't get interested in it. A little too much old man rambling for me. Not enough on the time travel part. Ambitious but problematic. This is a strange yet lovely book. Perhaps too lovely. Every sentence is beautifully written, so beautifully written that I read almost every sentence twice. Therein lies the problem. It takes a long time to read a book where you have to read every sentence twice to understand it's meaning. Every once in awhile I need a short sentence...
