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Title: You Were Wrong
Author: Matthew Sharpe
Narrator: Richard Tatum
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Meet Karl Floor: friendless, motherless, put-upon, living with his loudmouth stepfather and pretending to take satisfaction from teaching high school math. Karl returns home one day to discover his apartment being robbed by a beautiful woman named Sylvia.
So begins a strange and mostly inadvertant saga: Karl, now in love with this unexpected woman, finds himself introduced to her friends and family, making promises to her, defending her honor (which she definitely has) against assailants (which she only might have). Sylvia is devastatingly attractive, and caught up in a situation that Karl, bless his heart, does his best to understand. As he gets pulled further into her life, and begged to solve her problems, Karl also begins to see his own limitations.
Confronting his confusing paternal situation and his issues with class and responsibility, Karl emerges as an ingeniously funny, memorable, and heartwarming antihero.
Matthew Sharpe addresses his heady themes with warmth and charisma. You Were Wrong is a lovingly satiric, intelligent, and deeply enjoyable novel with a voice all its own.
Members Reviews:
I didn't enjoy reading it but it was so odd I wanted ...
Such a strange book. I didn't enjoy reading it but it was so odd I wanted to it ended which was bizarre. Disappointed.
I Was Wrong to Buy This
The author is talented in setting the scene, I'll give him that. Whereas I like a story that moves forward with some degree of regularity, this book read like a set of instructions a screenwriter uses to set the stage and mood for the actors. Though Karl was an interesting character with a misfit of a stepfather and the witty exchanges that ensued, I found myself wanting more dialog and less analysis of every room or road they found themselves. Not enough character development elsewhere with the exception of Arv and therefore the supporting cast failed to assist. If you liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with the on-going over-analysis of every action, you would be right to read this book.
something new
This work a bit of a departure from his previous work. Sharpe is even more focused on the sentence here, and there's a mystery plot.
Read nothing is terrible or the sleeping father first.
The way bodies in motion are descriped reminds me of Watt.
An original writing voice!
Matthew Sharpe's extraordinary novel "You Were Wrong" tells the story of Karl Floor (the surname says a lot), a man who lives the most insular of lives. As Sharpe puts it, "house, job, house, job, car, until recently, had been allowed by Karl more than by most to constitute the parameters of his life..." When Karl meets a beautiful stranger, he must choose whether to connect with another human being despite the risk that such a choice inevitably entails--the risk of being wrong about reality, about good and evil, and about love. Sharpe's penetrating insights are alternately satirical and deadly serious (at certain points I heard echoes of writers as diverse as David Foster Wallace and W.C. Fields), and always spot on. Like the best literature, You Were Wrong invites the reader to engage with the remarkable prose, just as its protagonist was asked to engage with life.
