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my usual genre more of what my Dad would readvery Law amp Order, If you spendpages just introducing the characters, the book better lead somewhere fantasticit didn't, Cynical but smart. Nothing Lost is Dunne's last novel I learned that candles can be used in uncomfortable ways,

John Gregory Dunne's last novel is a literary murder mystery that casts a broad satirical net over American media culture, politics, and the justice system.


Dunne may be most famous as the subject of "The Year of sitelinkMagical Thinking" by his wife Joan Didion, but "Nothing Lost" is an excellent example of his attention to craft and his skill at creating intricate and meaningful stories that are simultaneously high and low literature.


The characters here are ones you can care about and the world they live in seems dishearteningly like our own.
There's Poppy McClure, the rising star Republican, and her husband J, J. , the prosecutor in the case to try and convict the murders of Edgar Parlance, or "Gar" as the town affectionately calls him now that he is dead.
There's Max, who was demoted from the D, A. 's office for being gay, and Allie, the D, A. 's researcher who plays all the angles, Carlyle is a super model who becomes interested in the case when she discovers her longlost halfbrother Duane is one of the accused and discovers that she can also stand in some of the media glare.
Jocko is the football star gone wild who is doing community service for violent misconduct by acting as a Sheriff's deputy, And then there is Teresa Kean, a woman who takes on the defense of Duane Lajoie at a moment when her own life is in crisis.


"Nothing Lost" is ast Century "All the King's Men", It succeeds over the original by avoiding its sentimental excesses and Dunne's narrative is tighter and more purposeful, However, Dunne's satire sometimes slips into cartoony moments, especially when Carlyle and Jocko leap into

the narrative, and the book lacks the gravitas of "King's" in all but a couple of moments.


What do Jews do on Christmas Eve Finish good books they are reading,

I've always been more a fan of Joan Didion than her husband don't think I've finished anything of Dunne's before and the beginning of this one was excuse the pun to be a trial.
But by the end it bore a notsodistant modern cousin resemblance to the book that formed its epitaphAll the King's Men,


It seems to be about a trial of two young white men for a hate crime against a black man who might've been homosexual.
It turns out to be about the characters who populate this small midwestern statemostly the people involved in the case as attorneys and investigators, but also the criminals.


It has a lot to say about now what has become alltoowell understood media circuses but more about the broody despair of our injustice system, and maybe just the loneliness of lives that don't turn out as we would like.


Damn good stuff, Surprising that it hasn't been made into a movie, though it may be just slightly too complex, I've never been one for murdermysteries, but this book kept me avidly reading, Great language and writing style, lots of sex and violence and liberal use of the "F" word, Right up my alley. I will look for more from John Gregory Dunne,
I recently read Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking and she often referred to this book, as it was her husband's last novel that he wrote before he died.
I really enjoyed Didion's book and had become curious about both her works as well as her husband's, So at the library I came across this one and decided to try it,

If you like crime novels, this one should be added to your list of "to reads", It's fast paced, intelligent, and has a few twists and turns, Dunne is well known for his screenwriting, and this story often reads like an action movie and I mean that in a good way.


My only "issue" with this story is that it's set in the "heartland" of America, a fictional state called "Midland" somewhere by Missouri/Kansas.
I grew up in the Midwest well, we considered ourselves "Midwest" although not part of the Heartland, And while the descriptions and even a lot of the dialogue were "accurate", the feel of the story was decidedly NOT Midwestern.
It had the frantic pacing of NYC where Dunne lived and a too slick movie feel for the Midwest, It was an Easterner portraying his version of the Midwest, And while the portrayal didn't bother me, the inauthentic tone just nibbled at the back of my brain, And for that reason alone, I couldn't give it,like I wanted to,

Didion wrote that upon reflection, Dunne was obsessed with death and that this book seemed to reflect it, Not having read any of his other works, nor knowing him personally, I cannot really say one way or the other, There was definitely a depressing feel to it, but in this particular genre, that is part of the package,

If you like Greg Iles or John Grisham, I'd say you'd probably enjoy this story too, I am very interested though in reading Dunne's nonfiction work, like Monster, as I did enjoy his writing style, This was probably more of a,star book. But, since it was published posthumously, I'm giving it the bumpit felt like a great book that just needed a little bit more work to hang together fully.
I'm sorry it's taken me this long to discover the late great John Gregory Dunne, Now that I have, I can't wait to burrow into his canon, Too many characters, in the beginning it was hard to figure out who was talking, Lots of graphic violence and sex, which was fine by me, but others might not like, Suspense builds toward the lastpages, but before that I had to force myself to continue reading it because it was for a book club.
The end is wrapped up nicely and I couldnt put it down at the end, I had only known of John Dunne because he was married to Joan Didion, I like his writing style really like it, Recommended to those who like mysteries and suspense novels, It's not quite either, this book, but it's the closest I can come to a classification, I'm looking forward to picking up more of his books, A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland, ” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics, An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives, In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dunne orchestrated these elements into a symphony of American violence, chicanery, and sadness, In the aftermath of Edgar Parlances killing, the small prairie town of Regent becomes a destination for everyone from a sociopathic teenaged supermodel to an enigmatic attorney with secret familial links to the worlds of Hollywood and organized crime.
Out of their manifold convergences, their jockeying for power, publicity or love, Nothing Lost creates a drama of magnificent scope and acidity.
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