Only the Good Parts
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738800201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Some novelists use the related form of writing whole chapters from the point of view of one character only, and yet they don't make the individuals distinct. There is an immediacy to the communications which makes them surprisingly compelling. Interesting. For all sorts of reasons. -- Jerry Rosco, author of forthcoming biography of Glenway WescottI liked Only The Good Parts very much. Once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. One of the best contemporary uses of a centuries-old form. I liked Only The Good Parts very much. It has ideas, style, and bite. It has ideas, style, and bite. Few attempts at fiction in the form of letters work so well. What modernizes this rather formal, dispassionate and emotionally distancing gimmick is that Curzon's characters are sending each other faxes and emails and notes slipped under doors. Provocative. In Only the Good Parts, the voice (and personality) of each c
A gay college professor named Marc Brandt arranges to have a child with a lesbian couple, anonymously. What follows are both clever and cruel deceptions, the paternal vs. the maternal, the very latest of the modern, and the oldest of the human.
"I Believe That People Are Basically Decent." The most amazing and saddest thing about this really fine novel is that apparently few people know about it. That is a real tragedy since ONLY THE GOOD PARTS has everything going for it. The complex characters are completely fleshed out; and unlike so many novels published today, this one has a plot that grabs you and won't let go of you. (Mr. Curzon is always one step ahead of the reader.) Additionally the subject matter has not been done to death either and the au. "Unique plot and unique device" according to Amazon Customer. Excerpt from a review at GayScribe.com: The unique subject matter -- a gay man having a baby with a lesbian couple -- is only one of things that makes the book unique. Curzon wrote the book as a series of letters, emails and faxes between the main characters rather than in the more traditional narrative style. While this style seems in some places to be a device that is rather cumbersome to maintain -- like when characters must write journal entries to help us under. SterlingDan Curzon hits it out of the park with "Only the Good Parts" Sterling46 I was familiar with Dan Curzon's writing, beginning way back with "Something You Do in the Dark". He has improved with age and "Only the Good Parts" is among his most engaging work. I just finished the Steig Larsson trilogy, ready to sink my teeth into another another page turner and hit the jackpot with this book,a rare amalgam of comedy,tragedy,intrigue and pure excitement. It picks up momentum as it goes along until it's roaring along with such intensity you cann. 6 said Dan Curzon hits it out of the park with "Only the Good Parts". I was familiar with Dan Curzon's writing, beginning way back with "Something You Do in the Dark". He has improved with age and "Only the Good Parts" is among his most engaging work. I just finished the Steig Larsson trilogy, ready to sink my teeth into another another page turner and hit the jackpot with this book,a rare amalgam of comedy,tragedy,intrigue and pure excitement. It picks up momentum as it goes along until it's roaring along with such intensity you cann
Daniel Curzon is the author of ten books of previously fiction, including the landmark Something You Do in the Dark (G.P. He has also written and published non-gay fiction. Putnam, 1971), often considered the first gay liberation novel.