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"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest, “I want you to love her, too!” It is a jealous passion also. He feels a little indignant if he finds that any one else has discovered the book, too."
Boy Still Missing
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Boy Still Missing
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I bought this over the weekend from a sale table at New Westminster Quay 'cause it looked like a good page-turner. (Left: author John Searles)
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Boy Still Missing, American writer John Searles’ debut novel, tells the story of fifteen year old Dominick Pindle, a working class kid in 1970s-era Massachusetts who spends his nights driving around with his mother, dragging his alcoholic father out of bars. There's something oddly unstable about Dominicks's woebegone mother, who "slip[s] from life to life the way some people change jobs". She has a past. But she's all Dominick's got, save his friend Leon Diesel and a photograph of the half-brother he's never met, Truman. One night while out searching for his father, Dominick is introduced to his father's mistress, Edie Kramer. Instantly attracted, Dominick begins an illicit relationship with Edie, who exploits him for both money and emotional support. To finance the unspoken terms of their arrangement, Dominick "borrows" money from his mother's savings, stashed around the Pindle's apartment. The results are disastrous. Boy Still Missing brings to life some of the most explosive issues of the 1970s: feminism, the disintegration/transformation of the family, poverty and abortion. The book delivered on its "page turner" promise, but by the last quarter its underlying political message -- however noble -- came close to eclipsing the story itself. This was unfortunate, since the first half of the book was so strong. |
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