Into the Light: A Novel - Hardcover

Hancock, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916870995 ISBN 13: 9780916870997

Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co

Synopsis

Dying of lung disease, Hazard Harker looks back on his life while his grandson, Dwight Cope, a teenager, faces the challenges of growing up

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

In 1962, Dwight Cope and his grandfather Hazard Harker attend a baseball game in Chicago's Wrigley Field, and the narrative switches back and forth between their thoughts. The author next introduces cross-cut scenes of Dwight's job as a copy boy for a newspaper, his father Raymond's desertion of the family and mother Vera's death by suicide in a car crash. Then Vera's thoughts while she is pinned under the car are given in stream-of-consciousness form, while Hazard's life (and eventual death) is shown in the same way. Despite skillful writing, this hodgepodge of literary techniques nullify rather than enhance each other. In addition, Dwight's fedora, his addiction to vintage movies, his employment in a Front Pagetype city room, and the preeminence of baseball in the lives of the working poor create an uneasy mixture of '30s images set in the '60s, adding to the reader's confusion. January
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Review

Into the Light is the most beautiful novel I have ever read about a dying man's love for his grandson. Alex Hancock is an original writer whose gifts are nothing less than treasurable. -- Al Young

Edition details

• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co
• ISBN 10: 0916870995
• ISBN 13: 9780916870997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English