Robert Boswell
Hardcover | Pages: 448 pages Rating: 3.58 | 288 Users | 57 Reviews
Mention About Books Tumbledown
| Title | : | Tumbledown |
| Author | : | Robert Boswell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
| Published | : | August 6th 2013 by Graywolf Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Psychology. Novels |
Description During Books Tumbledown
In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche.
But ... he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can't help himself?
In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
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| Original Title: | Tumbledown A Novel |
| ISBN: | 1555976492 (ISBN13: 9781555976491) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books Tumbledown
Ratings: 3.58 From 288 Users | 57 ReviewsCriticism About Books Tumbledown
Boswell is a fine writer but I think this one goes off the rails a bit. He plays games with perspective and events--perhaps trying to suggest how arbitrary life (or death) can be? But not to great effect. And the characters, many patients at a psych clinic, are a bit too disaffected to engender much interest. So a mixed bag.James Candler is a mental health counselor who is up for a lucrative promotion as the director of the treatment facility Onyx Springs. He is engaged to be married and lives in a large house outside of San Diego. The clients of this facility include sweet, mentally impaired Karly, sensitive Mick who can't remember the person he was before his schizophrenia and sarcastic, intelligent Maura who lives on a locked ward after a suicide attempt. Robert Boswell changes point of view sometimes multiple
I enjoyed this book up until the last chapter or so. Then I felt things just fell apart (maybe that was the point though, who knows).The writing style was interesting - each section by a different character overlapped with sections by other characters, providing insights into significant events by multiple characters. There were also some jumps back in time to Candler's past, as his family history is revealed to the reader.The story itself follows the lives of a few mentally ill individuals as
Not really sure if I liked this one or not; it may because of the feckless hero or the just-a-little too artsy ending(s.) It's also hard to do a novel cast in the mental health care world without comparing it to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Nonetheless, many of the internal views of the characters were interesting and added to the understanding of the events and illustrated the interaction of all our subjective perspectives on the events of our lives. Plenty of ambiguity that keeps the
This book is like popcorn puffs. You can't stop consuming it, but you know it's not good for you. I mean, what a great story. But geez, he's a hard ass author with an axe to grind and does so without any subtlety or grace. Maybe he could a) write books and b) host a talk radio show with Rush Limbaugh. Just so long as he keeps the writing separate from the omg the world is ending because of people who don't think like me rhetoric.
Tumbledown The weirdest novel I have ever read. I have almost no good things to say about it beyond stating that it was, if nothing else, creative. Surely there was a deeper meaning to everything than I was able to grasp but for me it was a scattered novel that jumped back and forth and told the story from too many perspectives. For hells sake at one point in time the author wrote from the view point of characters printed on a book cover! The story is meant to revolve around James Candler, a
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