One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and oversaturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never to be seen again.
Newell's suburbanite parents, Lincoln and Lorraine, are wracked with mounting grief as their marriage begins to unravel during the unfathomable year that follows his disappearance.
Bing Biderbixxe is an illustrator on a professional visit to Sin City on a hot summer day. He meets Cheri Blossom, a stripper known for her eye-popping pyrotechnic stage performance. Offstage, her drug- and porn-running boyfriend, Pony Boy, is cheating on her.
With exacting suspense and original technique, Bock's panoply of Vegas's dispossessed quietly exert their influence on Newell's fate.
From the new suburban shimmer of the Ewing home, to the gaudy misery of Vegas's strip clubs, to the desperate holes and punk-rock desert parties where an underclass of the marginal and meek are ignored and forgotten, Charles Bock takes us on a trip to the dark heart of America.
BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN mines the humanity of its characters as it rushes head on towards a spectacular tragedy and powerful redemption.
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Ravishing and raw... What should be said of the results of his labors? One word: bravo"
and, as corruptly compelling as Vegas, and as beautiful as the illusions its characters cling to for survival
Has great energy and some lovely writing. Bears comparison to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections or Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels.
It shares with these books the sharp eye for the minutiae of domestic arrangements,
the excess of detail mirroring the way consumer materialism shapes the interpersonal
transactions of the middle-class American home, and a sense of elegy for how the
promise of the American Dream more often than not (at least in literature) seems to get lost.
A post-modern Catcher in the Rye
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 410 pp. One Saturday night, in a city surrounded by desert and saturated with glitter is Newell Ewing. With his older, socially maladjusted mate Kenny, the two embark on Newell's first Saturday night out on the town in Vegas. Newell is twelve years old. Before the sun rises Newell has disappeared, never to be seen again. Newell's suburbanite parents, Lincoln and Lorraine, are wracked with mounting grief as their marriage begins to unravel during the year that follows his disappearance. Seller Inventory # 8157