Title: Sidestepping Cliches
Product review: The trick in this book is in sidestepping expectations from this genre. You'll decide if the author was successful or not as you wait at one pont for the other shoe to drop (speaking of cliches). I have yet to decide if the unnamed narrator and the restricted aspect of this personal point of view works as well as an alternative point of view might have worked. I've been reading this author since he first published and greatly admire his short fiction. I had read three of these chapters as exerpts in magazines and found them powerful by themselves. This novel has that quality of an episodic collection of stories for at least the the first three or four chapters.
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