RaveBookslutThis is an odd and dark book, a headlong rush through a painful and damp and unredeemed short life, a life narrated with such energy and fervor that the very structure of the sentence, of grammar and paragraph must be shoved out of the way in order for this voice to emerge … It was certainly not this plot, such as it is, that had me whooping with joy. It was the audacity of the project and the sheer energy with which McBride pulls it off. This is no middlebrow novel of sorrow redeemed. The language is wild and precise, lacking commas altogether, using the full stop to create a language that is as close to felt experience as one can get. And yet, it is not a ‘difficult’ read.
