A review by ben_miller
Spartina by John Casey

3.0

The NYT reviewer who compared this book to The Old Man and the Sea and Moby-Dick should be hunted down and shot by the Hyperbole Police, BUT...this is a good novel. It has a complex, engaging central character, bitter and blunt though he is. The fishing and boating scenes are excellent. Too bad he didn't cut the last 10 pages, essentially an abstract essay on how the character has changed...shouldn't we have gotten that on our own by page 360? Still, a fine book in many ways.