ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1973
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

John Buell - The Shrewsdale Exit
Pocket Books, 1973
254 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

This is one of those virulent gut-clenchers which you read, ineluctably, and which belongs roughly in the category of carno (epitomizing violence -- an alternate to porno -- as coined recently in Time). Whatever its justification, it has a terrible, terrifying hold from the time when Joe Grant, his wife, and youngster are on the road and are brought to a standstill when two cans of oil are thrown at the windshield by three toughs on motorbikes. Joe is beaten with a chain; his wife and child are raped and killed. There is no evidence of Joe`s assailants (confirmed by a Howard Johnson`s here, a drugstore stop there) and the police apparently permit the case to idle to a standstill. Joe, beyond the reach of reason, conducts his own inquiries, buys a gun and finally, manages to fire and nick two of the three. He`s sent to prison and circumstantially is able to join three of four inmates making a getaway. He spends the next weeks at a farm and via work and a young widow with three youngsters there is a more hopeful alternative to the "cold readiness for killing." Buell tells his story in an expressionless fashion, matching the impersonal society which has permitted it to take place while Joe has been totally blanked by the experience. This partially furthers the intention -- Buell zaps the reader with the momentum and impact of what has happened until you reach the Shrewsdale exit on one of those anonymous hard-surfaced throughways.


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