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A review by library_brandy
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus
4.0
Far It's weird to think of this tome--600+ pages and only half the story--as a "minor work" by Kraus, but it kind of is--it's not as splashy or showy as some of his other books, a quieter, more subdued sort of story. The pace is slow, but Zebulon Finch is an engaging character--he's deeply flawed, and knows it, and spends his death trying to atone for the terrible things he's done and continues to do to people.
It does run into a bit of the Forrest Gump problem, in which the character is involved in every major historical event--not to the same absurd extent, and I don't know how you could have a story set from the 1880s to 1940s and not touch on WWI or the jazz age/Prohibition or early Hollywood, but it does seem like a pretty crowded story at times.
Will totally pick up the second volume and keep going.
It does run into a bit of the Forrest Gump problem, in which the character is involved in every major historical event--not to the same absurd extent, and I don't know how you could have a story set from the 1880s to 1940s and not touch on WWI or the jazz age/Prohibition or early Hollywood, but it does seem like a pretty crowded story at times.
Will totally pick up the second volume and keep going.