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Title: Nine Below Zero by Kevin Canty, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pubt Doubleday ISBN: 0-385-49160-3 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 19 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Depressing but well written...
Comment: I guess this just isn't "my kind of book." Depressing, unlikable characters, no matter how well written, made this tough going for me. While the author has an excellent writing style, the story and its protagonist left me cold.
Rating: 2
Summary: A let-down
Comment: I was really excited to read "Nine Below Zero" after reading Kevin Canty's first novel, "Into The Great Wide Open," but this one kind of left me cold (so to speak.) I don't mind a book that's bleak if there's a teensy ray of hope somewhere, but Canty can't seem to offer us one. Sure, "Into the Great Wide Open" was also about a man obsessed with a screwed-up woman, but in that book, he was able to give us a sense of why the man found the woman so compelling. In "Nine Below Zero," it's much harder to figure out why the man would even give the woman the time of day. That said, Canty does describe the Montana landscape beautifully, and his writing has an attractively spare and clean quality.
Rating: 5
Summary: Canty is a God of Fiction!
Comment: I love Kevin Canty's work. He is my favorite author and I can't wait for him to write another book (of course his new collection is due out very soon!). This book, however, isn't for everyone. There are twists and turns of plot, but the main topic of this novel is the struggle within the main characters. Canty has a way with manipulating the psyches of depressed and lonely people; he has a unique ability to show the deepness and complexity of human emotion like no other writer that is alive today. If you have never read Kevin before I suggest you read his other novel first (Into The Great Wide Open, or evenn better, read his short story collection, A Stranger In This World, that is the best book I own!!), simply because this book is a lot to handle if you don't know what to expect. You should expect long narrative sequences that dive into the minds of the characters. No thought is left out, EVERYTHING is thought about and with complete honesty, something that is hard to find nowadays. I am at a loss for words to describe this book. Usually in modern fiction there is no more to learn than a moral lesson or a cleverly disguised metaphor, but by reading Canty I have again seen the core of human emotion; I have relearned how people see each other and how they think. BEST BOOK YOU WILL READ by a modern American author. BUY IT!!!
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Title: Honeymoon: And Other Stories by Kevin Canty ISBN: 0375708006 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Canty ISBN: 0679776524 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Stranger in This World: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Kevin Canty, Vintage Books ISBN: 0679763945 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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