Go with Me: A Novel - Softcover

Freeman Jr., Castle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061671851 ISBN 13: 9780061671852

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

A young woman recently relocated to a tiny Vermont logging town, Lillian is menaced by a mysterious stalker named Blackway. This one man—who kills her cat, forces her boyfriend to flee the state in terror, and silently threatens her very existence—is a force little understood by the local figures to whom she turns for help. Yet, in this spare and powerful tale, Lillian enlists the powerful brute Nate and the curmudgeonly Lester to take the fight to her tormenter as a raggedy quartet of town elders ponders her likely fate. With simple strength and extraordinary force, Go with Me is a riveting modern fable of good provoked to resist evil.

About this title

About the Author:

Castle Freeman Jr. is the award-winning author of two previous novels, a story collection, and a collection of essays. A regular contributor to The Old Farmer's Almanac since 1982, he lives in Newfane, Vermont, with his wife, Alice.

Review:

“Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy...Go With Me is at once wry, primal, epic and impossible to put down. I’m telling you the same thing I told the writer Richard Price: You must read this.” (Charles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, on NPR's "You Must Read This")

“[An] elegant little thriller about cunning versus cruelty . . . [a] pure delight, thanks to Freeman’s streamlined storytelling, dead-on dialogue, and lyrical descriptions of the bleak, woodsy landscape. This is a meticulous New England miniature, with not a wasted word.” (O magazine)

“This nimble thriller is the literary equivalent of a fierce bantamweight fighter: Short but muscular and lightning quick, it packs a surprising punch . . . Freeman has a flawless ear for dialogue and a sharp eye for quirky detail . . . Superb.” (People (Critic's Choice))

“What a spiffy little yarn, loose and funny and, at a few key junctures, righteously bloody...The book takes just a few hours to read--about the running time of the swell indie movie someone should make from this offbeat charmer.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Like its young heroine, Lillian, Freeman’s trim powerhouse is ‘a pistol.’ ...Freeman’s beautifully cadenced dialogue is rich with humor, philosophic depth and a near-mythic sensibility.” (Publishers Weekly)

“GO WITH ME ambles along with that ... mixture of corny irony and shrewd wisdom... These guys have a sweetness and slyness about them that’s affecting. ‘They don’t change,’ Freeman writes. ‘Time doesn’t pass for them.’ You could say the same for good storytelling like this.” (Washington Post)

“Castle Freeman Jr. packs more story into 160 pages than more famous authors could fit into twice as many...Go With Me is a dialogue-driven, take-the-law-into-your-own-hands story that is slick with humor and musings on pop culture, aging and American women.” (USA Today)

“This gem of a novel by Vermont author Freeman may bring him the larger audience he so richly deserves...Freeman turns this fablelike story into a surprisingly suspenseful showdown. And the artful cutaways to the old-timers’ priceless, extremely funny conversations add another level of richness to the tale.” (Booklist)

“There is a clear moral arc to this storyline, and suspense too. But GO WITH ME is also a literary novel, with echoes of “Deliverance” and Cormac McCarthy...Mr. Freeman adroitly captures the feel of played-out Vermont towns and people, and his dialogue has a terse, almost humorous, cadence.” (Wall Street Journal)

“A fast, memorable read gooey with atmosphere, Go With Me is a gem that sparkles with sly insight and cuts like a knife.” (Boston Globe)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061671851
• ISBN 13: 9780061671852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160