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Title: Brilliant social/political/sexual satire
Review: In the great tradition of Henry James "Turn of the Screw" and D.H. Lawrence "Lady Chatterley,s Lover" Kinkade has written a subtle, satirical send up of our shallow culture. Like Sherwood Anderson "Winesburg, Ohio" his thinnly masked disdain for smalltown provincialism is skillfully disguised by his overly flowerey stylistic mocking of tepid popular "Christian" prose. The undercurrent of sexuality is undeniable in the disjointed and fragmented character development. Their frustrated, unfulfilled lives only heighten the sexual tension like a delayed or denied climax. His mocking, even in the title, of our great Presidents Ronald Reagan "Shining City on the Hill" and George Bush I "A Thousand Points of Light" must be forgiven with a literary talent this immense. One sees glimmers of Swift and Defoe in this talented newcomer. Bravo Mr.Kinkade!!! What next?? Poetry? Symphonies? Dare I even say it---Film?
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