A Certain Kind of Light
By Thomas Moore
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“Thomas Moore is one of my very favorite contemporary fiction writers. His first novel A Certain Kind of Light is easily the most extraordinary, momentous work yet by this singular and sublime wordsmith.” — Dennis Cooper
Told through the eyes of a nameless teenage boy, A Certain Kind of Light sees the narrator attempt to find some kind of cohesion in a life from which he feels increasingly disconnected. As his family, friendships, sexuality and even his taste in music and pornography begin to feel distant from him, his alienation expands. The things that once meant everything to him are stripped of an essence he begins to doubt they ever had. He fixates on a profile of a boy that he finds on the Internet, projecting illusory ideas upon a person that he has never met but feels a profound intimacy with. Feeling more and more lost, he attempts to work out the connection between a disparate set of coincidences, objects and events: a dead, mangled bird, the funeral of his best friend’s father, a horrific experience with LSD, obsessive sexual fantasies and the disintegrating suburban life in which he was raised. Intensely emotional and disorientating, A Certain Kind of Light focuses on the intricacies of confusion.
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling Care of the Soul and twenty other books on spirituality and depth psychology that have been translated into thirty languages. He has been practicing depth psychotherapy for thirty-five years. He lectures and gives workshops in several countries on depth spirituality, soulful medicine, and psychotherapy. He has been a monk and a university professor, and is a consultant for organizations and spiritual leaders. He has often been on television and radio, most recently on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good exploration of the disconnection felt by suburban teens in the 21st century, and the ways that social media has furthered rather than lessened that distance. It finally takes an Acid-fueled explosion of emotion and sensory overload to connect the Narrator to the world. Even when that happens, the narrator is so alienated even from himself that the reader is never quite sure if sex is or isn 't happening--if the narrator is imagining himself to be the other people in his life or not as the sex is happening (if it is). A very clever book. Recommended.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A deceptively poetic if sparse novel about the darkest expressions of teenage apathy and confusion in the 21st century. The prose is cautious, gray, and unaffected. As such, it reflects it content. I like what the narrative here is doing, however, I felt like I didn't get to know the characters, or at least the narrator's impressions of the other characters, as well as I might have. I wanted the lack of a resolution to be messier, I wanted to Emma to linger more in the ways that Luke lingered. Maybe I don't get those things on purpose?