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Title: In Awe by Scott Heim ISBN: 0-06-092920-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Dark Tour de Force
Comment: This book is Scott Heim's second novel, and he still is able to capture the reader and hold them and bring them into his dark world. It is a fanastic novel that deals with death, romantic desire, revenge, and homophobia to name a few. I found that it is equal in power to his first novel, it's just the subject is different. It has the poetry of the first book, it's just darker but just as moving. I really liked it, and hopefully Scot Heim will give us his next novel soon!!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Juvenile Pretensions Flatten Good Writing
Comment: Scott Heim's writing is at times beautifully visual and graphic, and yet in this novel, the story is so preposterous his art is obscured. The characters all engage in completely ridiculous behavior that is meant to be read with grim shock and guilty, ghoulish pleasure, but which will make more discerning readers roll their eyes. This book also personifies the laughable trend in gay fiction: if there is death and depravity and self-loathing, then it's lit. If there is not, then it's not. The finale of this book is especially outrageous; you can feel Heim reaching for the most grotesque things possible in order to top himself. One part of the book I did love was the female character's past as one of those dirty little girls in class who doesn't even realize why she behaves the way she does. More character study on that line would have improved this book immeasurably.
Rating: 4
Summary: a lot going on
Comment: There was a lot going on in this book... sometimes too much for me to keep up with. And some of the violence seemed gratuitous. However: the human relationships hold the book together. As with Mysterious Skin -- this is a story of very real characters on a very fantastic journey. The novel is really a backdrop for a fearless examination of human pain, desire, love, self-sabotage, coping, strength. Even though "the" main character happens to be male, I particularly appreciate that Heim's female characters are REAL people -- not just hollow sidekicks. Say what you want about Heim's [] depiction of gay life... All I know is that there are not many writers (male, female, gay or straight) who manage to transcend the sexist prejudice of our culture and allow female characters to be as human as their male characters. This one does. Bravo, Heim!
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Title: Mysterious Skin : A Novel by Scott Heim ISBN: 0060926864 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates ISBN: 0758203489 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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