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Bezig met laden... Billy Deaddoor Lisa Reardon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. It’s all very oddly compelling. Normally such themes leave me feeling like the novels excuse reprehensible behavior. This one doesn’t. I actually got into the characters, including the dead Billy. Unlike the novel Death of a Nationalist where the character’s bastardness kept me from getting into the character, much less like him for what he was, this one does a much better job of putting you into the character’s point of view. Something to be said for 1st person when trying to get over such characters I guess. Billy Dead is definitely on my recommended list. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In an everyday voice, still as the air before thunder, Billy Dead introduces Ray Johnson and his kin. In their small Michigan town, the Johnsons are the family that starts all the trouble, has all the hard luck, and fuels all the gossip. Ray's older brother Billy has just been found murdered--by someone who watched him crawl a mile down the road, head bloody; who smoked four Marlboros while watching Billy die. The question isn't who killed him, but who didn't want him dead. Now Ray--knotted up with sorrow and a strange relief--bears the weight of the town's curious gaze as they dredge up all the past he's been trying to live down. But Ray insists on telling his own story, one of shameful abuse transfigured by impossible love: shocking, violent, tender, and redemptive in ways we have never known before.Lisa Reardon reshapes the American landscape of Annie Dillard's The Living and Peter Matthiessen's Killing Mr. Watson in this novel of shocking depths and soaring heights--and Ray Johnson emerges as one of the most heartrending and endearing characters in recent literature. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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When Billy's body is found, the reader assumes that it was by someone who watched him crawl down the road by Ray's house. The misery is described but Ray's reaction seems cold and matter of fact.
This sorrowful picture and writing style reminded me of Erskine Caldwell's "God's Little Acre." That book chronicles an impoverished family in rural Georgia. "Billy Dead" takes place in the country back roads of small town Michigan.
The Johnson family are unsympathetic to read about their comings and goings. They were hellions and were disliked.
Ray continues with his life as sheriff Keith McCutcheon investigates the murder. We see the reaction of other family members to Billy's death but there isn't any display of sorrow. ( )