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“Character: "That year the old man fell to beating him when the notion struck him...young Tyler grew wary and careful and watchful as a cat. All his movements seemed provisional and subject to change at a moments notice; he seemed always poised for flight." Setting: "Lightning walked the ridges...and conjured out of the night in strobic configuration stormbent trees writhing in the windy rain...as if here in the Harrikin even the heavens were ancient and strange." Gay uses language poetically, merging words like "stormbent", "sleeplocked" and "nighttransparent" seeking meaning beyond words like old Norse kennings. Theme: "All things and all places had come to seem transitory at best and he seemed to have arrived at some idea of where he fit or did not fit into the scheme of things." "Yet if there was only three score and ten allotted, that seemed to him no small thing, and it seemed not unfair... the world was wide and its possibilities infinite, and all it took to get there was a highway that was free for the taking."Read William Gay.”
jeannemarie1 wrote this review Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
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