Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsThis is an unassertive, most affecting account of the world which closes in on Hooker Winslow during his eleventh summer, and all the sad, cumulatively shattering events which take place seem quite true. Perhaps because it's told in such a lowkeyed fashion; not a word is out of place. Hooker is pretty much on his own with his cat Little Bones and the occasional attention of Iris, their Negro maid; his mother, like her mother before her, is ""peculiar"" behind closed doors after the death of a baby; Nicholas, his father, ""sits with his back to everything""; his older brother has started to drink, and, no one quite realizes what shape he's in. He commits suicide. Sometimes Hooker thinks he's the ""last of the crazy people"" but his tragedy is not so much the family history of imbalance but the weight of living alone with impossible questions too long unanswered. Hooker also thinks nobody listens to him--or pays attention to him. Sometimes it is the fate of a book like this which would be too bad. The setting is, unexpectedly, Canada, and the writing, clear and clean, is close to the bone.
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Daniel Kukwa - GoodreadsThere is a great deal of dreamy narrative prose in this, Timothy Findley's first novel. He would go on to refine and improve his technigque over the years, until it flowed like poetry...but in this ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsThe plot is one which may be hard to follow but it may affect many if a very personal way as it includes many concepts in everyday lives.
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsMy first Findley, I liked it. The writing was really good and the story moving and powerful.
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Goodreadsreminded me of hundred years of solitude
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Laurie Burns - GoodreadsDepressing, but well written. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Jennifer (aka EM) - GoodreadsThis book plodded along stealth-like, with an intriguing although unreliable narrator: the 11-yr-old Hooker, whose mute confusion and sadness were so very painful to bear witness to but who was also ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Goodreadsanother so so Findley
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Isabel - Goodreadssimilar to 'we need to talk about kevin' except not quite as disturbing, and one feels sympathetic towards the main character. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Last of the Crazy People
Avis d'utilisateur - Michael Christopher - GoodreadsMadness and dysfunction comes to life in this tale, as seen from the eyes of a young boy trapped in the front row. Consulter l'avis complet
