La Chute

Rating:
Summary: A Powerful Evocative Novel
Review: In the summer of 1968, Edward Dolan Jr was ten years old and living with his mother and sister, in Hawaii while his father, an army lieutenant, was on a tour of duty in Viet Nam. It was also the year his best friend, Carrie, accidently fell from a cliff to her death. Edward remembers that he tried to save her. He held on to her wrists as long as he could before she slipped away. Now, 32 years later, as he's stopped at a light on a Los Angeles street, he observes a gang incident that causes a flashback and brings the memory of that day, the worst day of his life, into focus. Only now he's not so sure what really happened..... Terrence Dunn has written a powerful and compelling novel that weaves a seamless story of three lives: Edward, his father and Carrie, together, on that one fateful day. His well paced plot is tense and suspenseful, as you're drawn into the story and catapulted back to the Viet Nam War and the sixties and his eloquent writing is crisp and spare. But it's Mr Dunn's very original and painstakingly drawn characters that makes this book really stand out. With a stunning climax that will leave you breathless, La Chute is an amazing story you won't be able to put down and a novel you'll want to lend and share and talk about.

Rating:
Summary: A Powerful Evocative Novel
Review: In the summer of 1968, Edward Dolan Jr was ten years old and living with his mother and sister, in Hawaii while his father, an army lieutenant, was on a tour of duty in Viet Nam. It was also the year his best friend, Carrie, accidently fell from a cliff to her death. Edward remembers that he tried to save her. He held on to her wrists as long as he could before she slipped away. Now, 32 years later, as he's stopped at a light on a Los Angeles street, he observes a gang incident that causes a flashback and brings the memory of that day, the worst day of his life, into focus. Only now he's not so sure what really happened..... Terrence Dunn has written a powerful and compelling novel that weaves a seamless story of three lives: Edward, his father and Carrie, together, on that one fateful day. His well paced plot is tense and suspenseful, as you're drawn into the story and catapulted back to the Viet Nam War and the sixties and his eloquent writing is crisp and spare. But it's Mr Dunn's very original and painstakingly drawn characters that makes this book really stand out. With a stunning climax that will leave you breathless, La Chute is an amazing story you won't be able to put down and a novel you'll want to lend and share and talk about.