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Core: A Romance
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THIS INTENSE AND COMPACT NOVEL crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be read as the classic myth of Hades and Persephone (Core) rewritten for a twenty-first century audience as well as a dark, foreboding tale of unrequited love and loneliness. Alonso skillfully uses language to imitate memory and psychosis, putting the reader squarely inside the narrator’s head. In addition, deliberate misuse of standard punctuation blurs the distinction between the narrator’s internal and external worlds. A sense of alienation and Faulknerian grotesquerie permeate this landscape where desire is borne in the bloom of a daffodil and sanity lies toppled like an applecart in the mud.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book reminded me of Faulkner. A totally different voice, but that rambling style where you really get into the head of a protagonist who isn't necessarily likeable, but who the reader feels drawn to understand. This was the first serious literature I had read in a while (I read it when it first came out) and it inspired me to make a little more effort in selecting my novels. With literature this good, why bother with junk?
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