Showing posts with label 'Next: a Novel'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Next: a Novel'. Show all posts

11 March 2010

Rough Flight, but a Perfect Landing: James Hynes's novel, Next

First thoughts:


funny, satirical, poignant, maybe a bit too obsessed with sex, somewhat clumsy, but an ending that will not disappoint! 


Next, by The Lecturer's Tale author, James Hynes,  starts off, humorously as noted with a middle aged man by the name of Kevin Quinn touching ground at the airport in Austin (our author's real world home) while musing on the foil-potato-chip-can-likeness of his plane compared to a the potential Sting(er) of a terrorist attack. We quickly learn that the world has been marred by the recent 666 attacks, 6 different European cities have been attacked on June the 6th, and people everywhere (especially the new career seeking Kevin) are a touch nervous.