Title: Most dissapointing book I've read all year!
Review: I don't know what my fellow reviewers have been reading that caused them to give this book such glowing reviews, but their comments prompted me to purchase this book, a decision I regret! I found the characters (caricatures?) in this story so one-dimensional that I was reminded of those in silent films. Good, guy, bad guy, poor little Nell. Their motivations often seemed pointless, as did many of the plot developments. The author's attempt to utilize the juxtaposition between the squalor of the setting with the "haute cuisine" menu of the truck stop, did little to affect the sense of surrealism he was attempting. I thought the books subject (stolen moments of tenderness between hard-bitten, latent homosexual truckers and their counterparts; emotionally needy, socially repressed boys) was an interesting one, deserving further exploration by a more capable writer. If that is what you are seeking, look elsewhere.
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