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A review by soulkissed2003
He by John Connolly
4.0
My husband and I watched the movie "Stan and Ollie", which recently came out on DVD. I was curious to learn more about these two men, who were funny on stage and screen, yet who had so much sorrow in their own personal relationships.
In "he: a Novel", John Connolly takes us through the disjointed memories of Stan Laurel, who, at the start of the story, is in his oceanside home, preparing to die. As he -- yes, he -- reflects back on his past, we get to know this man who flitted from marriage to affair to remarriage to divorce again and again, yet seemed to remain lonely throughout his life.
Not only it is an interesting story with a unique construct, relying heavily on that title pronoun, it is incredibly well written in that it hardly ever uses "he" or related pronouns for other characters in the book.
In "he: a Novel", John Connolly takes us through the disjointed memories of Stan Laurel, who, at the start of the story, is in his oceanside home, preparing to die. As he -- yes, he -- reflects back on his past, we get to know this man who flitted from marriage to affair to remarriage to divorce again and again, yet seemed to remain lonely throughout his life.
Not only it is an interesting story with a unique construct, relying heavily on that title pronoun, it is incredibly well written in that it hardly ever uses "he" or related pronouns for other characters in the book.