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2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Was it just a dream?
2012/1/18
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
This book starts with a bang, literally, as the protagonist's jealous girlfriend takes a shot at him escaping through a window. Next thing we know, he's having a drink with Ernest Hemingway -- maybe, maybe not. This is a high-energy read; it gets up to speed quickly and the pace never relents. It sweeps you along.
Rick Skwiot's "Key West Story" succeeds on three different levels: an unconventional love story, a carefully observed chronicle of Key West life and culture, and a novelist's dialogue with his mentor, who *might* be Hemingway. The literary subplot is always there, in the background, but it never becomes pedantic and doesn't sap the novel's energy. What the book is really about, it seems to me, is the delicate balance between dream/fantasy and reality. Real life out on the edge where it can be dreamlike; dreams so intense they become real. Early on, the line between dream and reality starts to blur. When that line is finally wiped out, during a hurricane without and within, all bets are off. The best endings are both surprising and inevitable, and this book does not disappoint.
You don't need to be a Hemingway aficionado to enjoy this book. But if you are, you'll enjoy it even more.
Rick Skwiot's "Key West Story" succeeds on three different levels: an unconventional love story, a carefully observed chronicle of Key West life and culture, and a novelist's dialogue with his mentor, who *might* be Hemingway. The literary subplot is always there, in the background, but it never becomes pedantic and doesn't sap the novel's energy. What the book is really about, it seems to me, is the delicate balance between dream/fantasy and reality. Real life out on the edge where it can be dreamlike; dreams so intense they become real. Early on, the line between dream and reality starts to blur. When that line is finally wiped out, during a hurricane without and within, all bets are off. The best endings are both surprising and inevitable, and this book does not disappoint.
You don't need to be a Hemingway aficionado to enjoy this book. But if you are, you'll enjoy it even more.
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Key West Story
2012/1/16
形式:Kindle版
In his new novel, "Key West Story," Skwiot reveals what life is like in this iconoclastic Floridian town, where roosters roam freely, and every third resident seemingly needs a green card. Despite the climate, it's not always sunny in Key West, but when spirits sag or hurricanes threaten, there is solace in fresh-caught lobster, ice cold beer, readily available sex and a touch of magic. Hemingway appears in this story and shares his writerly wisdom with Constantine, a talented former best selling author who is dealing with a stubborn case of writer's block, while trying to stave off homelessness and death threats from a seriously jealous lover.
As always, Skwiot creates wonderful characters like Eva, the illegal, but optimistic Czechoslovakian sex worker with a plan and, Aurora, a Cuban cabaret singer who Constantine meets in Havana, then helps smuggle into the U.S. An added bonus in this book is that Constantine's quick trip to Cuba allows the reader to experience the surreality of living in a nation full of broken dreams, rotting wood and Communist snitches.
By Terry Baker Mulligan, "Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem"
As always, Skwiot creates wonderful characters like Eva, the illegal, but optimistic Czechoslovakian sex worker with a plan and, Aurora, a Cuban cabaret singer who Constantine meets in Havana, then helps smuggle into the U.S. An added bonus in this book is that Constantine's quick trip to Cuba allows the reader to experience the surreality of living in a nation full of broken dreams, rotting wood and Communist snitches.
By Terry Baker Mulligan, "Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem"
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
it takes one to know one
2012/1/15
形式:ペーパーバック
Skwiot obviously feels at home describing the lower Keys and specifically Key West in terms of social structure, patterns of behavior, mores and he does equally well giving us visual pictures of the environment and scene through dialogue and commentary. Once again we get the feeling that this author is writing about stuff he knows firsthand and painted with quite a broad palette. Another in a string of fine works by Skwiot. Certainly a great read on the flight to Key West.
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