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not for everyone and an effort to get through, even for me who loves it, A funny, poignant, outrageous story about the stories we tell, No story is not dependent on another story, Any story worth its salt reminds us of another story, Every story has some story that went before, In this very southern novel our family story is part and parcel of who we are, yet anyone is capable of surprising us.
We can usurp someone's story, but no one but that person can really appreciate what that story means to them.
This is a book about stories and storytelling, and especially about oral narrative,

It contains a lot of stories, but not in the way that, say, a collection of short stories contains a lot of stories.
At one level this book is a single story, But in telling the story, the narratorsthere is more than onerepeatedly get sidetracked and start off in new narrative directions in order to tell other stories, the purpose of which, sometimes, is to further illuminate the main

story.
Then again, sometimes, the new story just seems to be so interesting that the narrator can't resist the temptation to tell it.
So stories spin off of the main story, and then stories spin off from those stories, and so forth in a fractal pattern.


image error Unquestionably the funniest book I've ever read, The first time I read the book, my mother was in the same room with me and kept asking me why I was laughing so hard, but it's impossible to read a passage from this book aloud.


Some people might find Pearson's style of writing hard to get used to unless they're from the South.
The book is written exactly as if it's being told to someone and there are sentences that go on for paragraphs and stories that splinter off into asides and back again.
I don't think any other writer could make this work, but Pearson does and he does it to amazing effect.


Don't read this in public and don't read it if there's a good chance you'll be interrupted frequently.
If you have bladder issues, wear an adult diaper and settle in, Love this author's story telling

Takes time to read but what a hoot!
Told by the little boy, the stories and personalities are hilarious but totally human.

noofThe last of the trilogy set in and around the fictional town of Neely, North Carolina, The Last of How It Was is narrated by young Louis Benfield and is primarily concerned with the convoluted and often tragic Benfield family history.
Quirky isn't the half of how it is, Very peculiar style, engaging sometimes, but long, What's the story Where is it going Anywhere It took me foreverpages at least! to get into Pearson's writing stylelong paragraphs of one long sentence with minimal punctuation.
But the family stories, relationships, and tangential stories were humorous, The lastpages were my favorite, and I'm glad I stuck with it, T. R, Pearson's books do not really get this side of the pond, After reading the very excellent Cry Me a River and A Short History of a Small Place I was expecting more from this one.
After plugging away and plugging away at it, by the middle you finally DO come to realise that it is a book with something to say but so stylised as to be one track only.
The e. e. cummings "i had an uncle named sol, . . " long winded discursive style gets to be too much and this is a real pity, Buried in there are some real gems of humour but the quality of the writing is so buried beneath this forced style that, once set by Pearson, it has to be stuck too.
A real shame but don't give up, read the other two instead Thomas Reid Pearson is an American novelist born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, He is the author of seventeen novels and four works of non fiction under his own name, including A Short History of a Small Place, Cry Me A River, Jerusalem Gap, and Seaworthy, and has written three additional novels Ranchero, Beluga, and Nowhere Nice under the pseudonym Rick Gavin.
Pearson has also ghostwritten several other books, both fiction and nonfiction, and has written or co written various feature film and TV scripts.
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