Title: Electrifying!
Review: Lick Creek is a rich mixture of love, electricity and life poetically told by one practiced in the art of alchemy. The story is woven with such vivid and etherial description I finished the novel feeling as though I had just watched it on the sliver screen.Although comparisons are never quite fair, Kessler's style brings to mind shades of Robert Penn Warren, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ontaatje and Alan Lightman. His descriptive metaphor bring all five senses into the reading of this novel. The characters step off the page with a realism that is nearly tactile.Though the setting of the action is cheifly the "hollows" of rural West Virginia during the electrification of the US, the novel also takes you along wonderfully descriptive tours of select ethnic settings including New York and Russia. As you can tell, I really liked this book. Give it a lick . . . . I think you too will find it tasty.
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