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muhly22 's review for:
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
This was a very good book, and I can certainly see why it won the Pulitzer Prize. It is generally considered to be based on the life of Huey Long, the Louisiana Kingfisher; not knowing all that much about Huey Long, I will defer to people with more knowledge on that score. However, the political aspect of the book is only a minor part of the story. Even more than the politics, the story is of the narrator's search for meaning in his life.
There are multiple, interwoven plot lines. The development of the narrator's love life is separate from the political story, but could not have occurred without the development of the political story. Likewise, the narrator's family life needed the political story to develop, but is separate from the political aspects. This all sounds confusing, I'm sure, if you haven't read the book, but it's not, in large part because Robert Penn Warren is a significantly better writer than I am. You won't feel lost at any point, everything flows in a cohesive story, and the story is well-told.
There are multiple, interwoven plot lines. The development of the narrator's love life is separate from the political story, but could not have occurred without the development of the political story. Likewise, the narrator's family life needed the political story to develop, but is separate from the political aspects. This all sounds confusing, I'm sure, if you haven't read the book, but it's not, in large part because Robert Penn Warren is a significantly better writer than I am. You won't feel lost at any point, everything flows in a cohesive story, and the story is well-told.