The New City : A Novel

Rating:
Summary: fantastic
Review: This is a fantastic book. Exciting. Brilliantly written. Great characters. This is the book Thomas Hardy would have written if he lived through the seventies. If you are looking for literary fiction that is actually about something, The New City is your book.

Rating:
Summary: fantastic
Review: This is a fantastic book. Exciting. Brilliantly written. Great characters. This is the book Thomas Hardy would have written if he lived through the seventies. If you are looking for literary fiction that is actually about something, The New City is your book.

Rating:
Summary: So-so
Review: Well written in places with some narrative momentum, but this book has lots of problems. It is supposed to be a period piece/historical novel about the 1970's, but the references are just sprinkled in every 2 or 3 pages and don't really have anything to do with the plot -- could have been set in almost any era. Second, the two teenage boys around whom the plot revolves act very implausibly for boys of their age. I must say I did like the portrayal of the Vietnam veteran character (I am one) -- nicely balanced. Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full is a better look at the same subject.