God Boy (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Ian Cross
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Author: Ian CrossEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-27
ISBN: 0141187441
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Reviews of God Boy (Penguin Modern Classics)
Book Review: Bitter, vital, brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this classic had been lost forever, and I'm so glad Penguin have republished it.
Jimmy Sullivan is a troubled adolescent relating the events which plunged him into turmoil. He has an existential bravado, swearing that he's going to put God in His place, that he's going to tell the 'truth' to the world about God.
The narrator's naivete is masterfully used to create dramatic irony and suspense.
It was a punch in my guts as I read his explosion of confusion and violence against everyone he loves in the midst of family disaster. The book and character are wound up dynamite, uneasy, brutal.
It was originally published in 1957, 6 years after THE classic of adolesence that I can't bear to name here, because the poor bastard must've got compared all his life and it's like he just wants to get out from that shadow. But the comparison is necessary. They're brothers.
The difference between this and Salinger's work is that the God Boy is darker, more suspenseful, and from New Zealand.
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