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Meet Tom Ripple a man with an uncommon outlook on his common life At home in a North London suburb Ripple keeps close tabs on his neighbors while his own family splinters apart As the years pass by he forges on bravely and awkwardly in his relationships with It's All eBook #8608 his wife and children his parents girlfriends colleagues and friends and in his ongoing search for certainties both moral and practicalB. In his first novel Chadwick shows what an excellent writer he is But he is still not uite up to the challenge he gave himself a long novel with a first person narrator whose life is extremely dull and who is neither likeable nor particularly interesting This is not Beckettian angst it’s a very narrow British life looked at from within by someone who is observant and opinionated and intelligent to an unbelievable extent but just doesn’t merit over 600 pages At 113 pages I had had enoughAnd yet I like flat prose done as well as Chadwick does it It’s so hard to define what is missing because it isn’t just plot or character or even voice; the voice works on the whole It’s that there is a limit to living with such a voice and that Chadwick didn’t make me want to see what he was going to do with it for the next hundred pages not to mention hundreds Maybe it’s just my increasing impatience my wanting to taste and move on
Charles Chadwick ´ 5 Summary
It's All Right NowHumor and a clumsiness in his attempts at emotional connection with others He is a bewildered everyman navigating his way through modern timesIn this remarkable debut novel Charles Chadwick has created one of the most memorable brilliantly realized characters in contemporary fiction By turns poignant funny heartbreaking and profound It's All Right Now is a towering achievement and a singular work of the imaginati. This was a daunting book It is almost 700 pages and took me 10 weeks of start and stop reading It is a lifelong journal of a very ordinary man living a pretty uneventful life At first I wasn't sure if I would carry on Tom Ripple is married with two children but seems very removed from them His wife is a social worker who knows the right way to do everything and he seems very much the sidekick As time goes on he divorces his wife says they have run their course and it's time to move on and maintains a very slim relationship with his children I read on because I couldn't help myself Tom and his single life and his relationships with his children his ex wife and his neighbours grew on me and I confess that as I neared the end I purposely stopped because I knew the ending and I didn't want it to come