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One Last Thing Before I Go
by Jonathan Tropper
Washed-up drummer, dead-beat dad Silver decides to die. The next week or two forces him to interact with his family, especially his 18 yr old daughter.
Tropper has a way with dialogue -- the chapters that are solely dialogue are some of my favourites. It's pithy and emotional and so much gets said in so few words. If he and [a:Aaron Sorkin|225509|Aaron Sorkin|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247937179p2/225509.jpg] got together, wow.
All the characters are characters, they are interesting and complex. There's heartache and laughter in the wit of the writing. The emotions described are so real. Much of the narrative is very perceptive and profound, too. Even about little things, but certainly about the big things. The dynamics of a family are spot-on.
My favourite thing about the writing is that it is told in third person omniscient, but almost seems first person. Artful and effective!
One complaint: When she's trying on her wedding dress, Denise remembers the chair where her mom sat when Denise tried on a dress for her first wedding, watching her, both of them teary because Dad had died a few years earlier. But in the scene where everyone's at Elaine and Ruben's house for the intervention, the narrative says that Elaine was like a mother to Denise because Denise's mother died when she was 13 of breast cancer. And at Denise's wedding, Silver notes her father.
Where was the eagle eye of the editor in this???
Tropper has a way with dialogue -- the chapters that are solely dialogue are some of my favourites. It's pithy and emotional and so much gets said in so few words. If he and [a:Aaron Sorkin|225509|Aaron Sorkin|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247937179p2/225509.jpg] got together, wow.
All the characters are characters, they are interesting and complex. There's heartache and laughter in the wit of the writing. The emotions described are so real. Much of the narrative is very perceptive and profound, too. Even about little things, but certainly about the big things. The dynamics of a family are spot-on.
My favourite thing about the writing is that it is told in third person omniscient, but almost seems first person. Artful and effective!
One complaint: When she's trying on her wedding dress, Denise remembers the chair where her mom sat when Denise tried on a dress for her first wedding, watching her, both of them teary because Dad had died a few years earlier. But in the scene where everyone's at Elaine and Ruben's house for the intervention, the narrative says that Elaine was like a mother to Denise because Denise's mother died when she was 13 of breast cancer. And at Denise's wedding, Silver notes her father.
Where was the eagle eye of the editor in this???