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A review by ronanmcd
Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic
4.0
A powerful, moving but curious book.
Everything is fractured, broken and split(!) apart. The reasons behind the suicide, the town in which it is set, the purpose of any character's actions, the narrative and order. Everything jumps in and out of focus, and nothing is ever quite right.
And this is a fitting way to tell a story set in a town so forgotten, so depressed, that it holds its own back; the only way to leave it, let alone have a chance to succeed, is to leave. But the town draws the narrator back.
At every time the characters seem to have little say in their actions, as though habit formed their decisions.
It's a strange book. Wonderful and weird. The author writes poetry. That can't be coincidental to how this book turned out.
Everything is fractured, broken and split(!) apart. The reasons behind the suicide, the town in which it is set, the purpose of any character's actions, the narrative and order. Everything jumps in and out of focus, and nothing is ever quite right.
And this is a fitting way to tell a story set in a town so forgotten, so depressed, that it holds its own back; the only way to leave it, let alone have a chance to succeed, is to leave. But the town draws the narrator back.
At every time the characters seem to have little say in their actions, as though habit formed their decisions.
It's a strange book. Wonderful and weird. The author writes poetry. That can't be coincidental to how this book turned out.