Book Review
Oct. 9th, 2009 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariI'll Go To Bed At Noon
by Gerard Woodward
This is the sequel to August, and follows the next stage of the Jones' lives, picking up about four years after the close of the first book. Colette has given up sniffing glue and become a low-key alcoholic. Janus continues down the the path of alcoholism and unbalanced behavior, which eventually results in his eviction from the family home. The Jones' other children gradually leave the home to forge their own adult lives and escape from Janus' menacing influence.
The characterizations remain full and rich, the prose well-formed, and the narrative elegantly devoid of melodrama despite the subject matter. It's amazing how a relatively quiet and even ordinary story about a family can be so absorbing in the hands of the right author.
by Gerard Woodward
This is the sequel to August, and follows the next stage of the Jones' lives, picking up about four years after the close of the first book. Colette has given up sniffing glue and become a low-key alcoholic. Janus continues down the the path of alcoholism and unbalanced behavior, which eventually results in his eviction from the family home. The Jones' other children gradually leave the home to forge their own adult lives and escape from Janus' menacing influence.
The characterizations remain full and rich, the prose well-formed, and the narrative elegantly devoid of melodrama despite the subject matter. It's amazing how a relatively quiet and even ordinary story about a family can be so absorbing in the hands of the right author.
