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When Joe Starling was ten years old, his father’s bank foreclosed on a fieldstone mansion which was by then a depressing ruin standing by itself in the middle of a fourteen-section cattle pasture.

Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

Night-Flight by Antoine St Exupery

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

April 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Keep The Change – 2/5 Stars This is a novel by Thomas McGuane, mostly known for Western and Southern novels that have an air of seriousness to them and a lot of ironic gesturing and clippy dialog. I’ve previous read one of his short story collections which was very strong, but he’s been around for awhile. This novel is ok, but I can’t say I connected much with it. Joe works as a teen on a farm that his father foreclosed on and the new […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anne tyler, Antoine St Exupery, David Foster Wallace, keep the change, Thomas McGuane

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:224 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anne tyler, Antoine St Exupery, David Foster Wallace, keep the change, Thomas McGuane ·
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