Marco Martins itibaren Irvington, KY , USA

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2019-11-28 05:40

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Lucky and Tom Ed Sweatt, twins who grew up in western North Carolina, have taken very different paths in life. Now, after years of semi-estrangement, Tom Ed is running for Governor and needs his brother to drive the campaign bus. Interspersed with the narration are flashbacks prompted by the various present-time events on the campaign trail. The Sweatt family's back story is revealed piecemeal, saving the most sensational events for the end chapters, although they are teasingly referred to earlier in the book. For example, Lucky mentions in the second or third chapter that he left town in 1963 after getting 'bailed out' of jail. We don't learn why he was in jail until near the end of the book. The present-time narration is told using the present tense, so when the (third person omnicient) narrator says, "Lucky dives to Greensboro" we know we are reading about current action. If the narrator were to say, "Lucky drove to Greensboro," he would have been talking about events from the past. The "present" in this book is 1992. It is a good bit jarring for the reader to be switching tenses like this without any other common conventions such as a page break or chapter break, or even an italicized dateline to indicate that we have traveled back in time. I don't know why this bothered me so much, but it did. Besides that, the story was pretty average. It didn't hold any big surprises, and the 'tragic end' of the campaign was telegraphed rather early in the book. As events unfolded it was easy to infer what the tragedy was going to be. I was also not terribly attached to these characters, and found that I really couldn't care less what eventually happened to them. In fact, I was actively rooting against one or two of the main characters. That may be completely due to my own personal politics, however. Overall, I thought this book was so-so. If one is either from or more actively interested in the south, it might be a more engaging read.

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