Review: Less Than a Masterpiece; Much More Than a Trifle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
This 30ish guy "Mark Harvey" sure has a lot of promise. The characters want for development, but that's not the writer's strongest suit (he seems to have a leaning to the fantastical) and besides, it's just a novella. Resolutions might strike some as predictable and pat, but Harvey, after all, was trying to peddle the thing to "Collier's" and "Saturday Evening Post." So Harvey delivers the final package with a pretty bow. The thing is, every five-to-ten pages the prose and author's unique whimsy simply light up the sky, an otherwise unremarkable work transcends the e pages and, because it's the very best thing I've seen by the young Kurt Vonnegut, it becomes remarkable for all the obvious reasons and a must-read, not just for Vonnegut fans, but any lover of second half 20th century literature.