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Title: Resolution Way
Author: Carl Neville
Narrator: Damian Lynch
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A financially comfortable but troubled young London author, Alex Hargreaves stumbles across the work of an unknown writer from the early 1990s, Vernon Crane, and, presuming the missing Crane is dead, decides to pass the work off as his own. The problem is that the novel he wishes to plagiarise has been split among Crane's disparate and scattered group of friends, all of whom, 20 years later, are struggling with the demands of a life in a Britain in which current trends toward inequality and the concentration of political power have accelerated. Hargreaves' mission to track down Crane's work sets in motion a series of encounters alternately tragic, redemptive and liberating and threatens to destroy Hargreaves' own world in the process.
Combining the best elements of a literary thriller and speculative fiction, Resolution Way is a bleakly humorous satire on contemporary Britain, a meditation on the power of the past, the forces that shape our lives and the ways in which the possibility of the miraculous still remains.
Members Reviews:
The writing is brilliant and the dark humor had me LOL as much ...
The integration of third person narration into the worldview and dialogue of each character-driven chapter, is enhanced by the lack of quotes so that one is more fully immersed into various streams of consciousness. As much as I was fully engaged with the Alex and Rob chapters, I began bracing for a preachy bludgeoning with the Paula and Lewis chapters, but thankfully the plot twisted off unexpectedly into a William Gibson-like scenario (Neuromancerâs âStraylight Runâ came to mind). Perhaps the author tips his hand at his influences on p. 222, where Pynchon is backhandedly mentioned among others, and earlier in the novel I was indeed thinking of The Crying of Lot 49 and its search for an elusive text. The writing is brilliant and the dark humor had me LOL as much as any Vonnegut novel. Neville makes you want to poach his better lines, a âla Alex (ââan attempt at a hipsterish lane that ultimately led to a rundown pub and a courtyard full of feral looking families in cheap sportswear.â). Nevilleâs skewering of the office-as-personal-hell in âNickâ belongs next to Richard Yateâs Part I/Chapter 5 in his Revolutionary Road, and his Affective Monitor invention almost seems like a satirical rebuttal to James Francoâs essay on the virtue of the selfie, in which the latter distrusts those who do not e-publish selfies (NYT, 12-26-13: [...]
My quibbles are this: after a deft analysis and mapping of the arc that the coercive strategies of the personal debt-driven, out-sourced welfare/âhuman capitalâ state can take (âsoul-crushingâ is an understatement), the means for how it might be thwarted are literally escapist (release the Rave hydra). That and the virtual disappearance of the MacGuffin (v.1-5 becomes more nebulous at the end than Pynchonâs V.). Iâd love to find a discussion board where this top 5 novel of 2016 (I canât see much besting it) can be critiqued without the need to flash âspoiler alertâ.
Loved it
A real page turner and the characters felt so real!
