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April Fool is a sophisticated tale set in Cheever country (suburban Connecticut) - suspense, politics, romance, manners and murder, not to mention sex.
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Yale graduate and Army vet, John Neufeld, is an adjunct professor at University level, teaching Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
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American fiction is a frontier ruled by outlaws, from the deluded gangster Jay Gatsby, and girlfriend murdering Clyde Griffiths, to the sociopathic Tom Ripley, and chaotically priapic Harry Angstrom...George Willetts, the desolate protagonist of John Neufeld's latest novel, APRIL FOOL, follows in this tradition...Neufeld's novel has a fine feel for life's seasonal comings and goings in towns like Sharon, Salisbury and Lakeville, their customs and social strata, the quaint villages, mountain vistas, quiet meadows and lonely roads. It makes an apt American Eden in which to play out George's temptation and fall." -- Connecticut Muse, Autumn, 2008
Writer Neufeld's forebodingly comedic narrative, regarding a man having difficulty trying to cope with the recognition that more years of his life are behind him than there are to come, does have moments of drollness laced with more than a little gallows humor....Neufeld's writing is dynamic, hard hitting and presented without a lot of explanation or literary embellishments....Settings are nicely developed, draw the reader into the narrative, characters move through the storyline in expected fashion albeit with the ability to hold reader interest tight without being overdone. APRIL FOOL is a well written work devised to draw the reader into the action with fully developed character studies. The arc (author's review copy) I received for review ...has a list of seventeen stimulating discussion starters included at the back of the book which makes the book very accessible for book club use. Happy to recommend. --Midwest Book Review, November 2008 (Molly Martin, reviewer)
Writer Neufeld's forebodingly comedic narrative, regarding a man having difficulty trying to cope with the recognition that more years of his life are behind him than there are to come, does have moments of drollness laced with more than a little gallows humor....Neufeld's writing is dynamic, hard hitting and presented without a lot of explanation or literary embellishments....Settings are nicely developed, draw the reader into the narrative, characters move through the storyline in expected fashion albeit with the ability to hold reader interest tight without being overdone. APRIL FOOL is a well written work devised to draw the reader into the action with fully developed character studies. The arc (author's review copy) I received for review ...has a list of seventeen stimulating discussion starters included at the back of the book which makes the book very accessible for book club use. Happy to recommend. --Midwest Book Review, November 2008 (Molly Martin, reviewer)
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- PublisherGrey Swan Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0980037735
- ISBN 13 9780980037739
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages340
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Book Description Condition: Near Fine. First edition, 1st Printing. Signed and dated 8/1/08 by John Neufeld on the half-title page"A semi-retired political campaign consultant, bored with his life and his wife, meets a new and exciting woman and thinks he can regain his lost youth with her if he gets rid of his wife". Seller Inventory # 42837
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