![]() ![]() You don't have to like sports to like this novel. ![]() The brilliance of Habash is reminding us that life is a thriller, especially for a young man involved in college competitive sporting. Even if you could not really call this a thriller, it is written with that crazy intensity. The narrator is Stephen himself, and one of the great merits of the novel is that you never know what is going to happen next. ![]() Through Stephen we see a whole universe of the troubled and troubling people which surround him, his peers, teachers, his deceased parents, his crazy aunt. In this day and age of literary and politically correct stereotypes, Stephen is a full fledged human being, alienated but not crazy, determined to win because winning is meaning. Stephen is the narrator, and he is as human and real a character as you are likely to come into contemporary fiction. The intensity and precision with which Habash goes into the mind of the lead character, the lonely, brilliant, borderline crazy and determined Stephen Florida is dazzling. I'm amazed that this book was not on all the best of the year lists of 2017. Gabe Habash presents himself as a major talent with his debut. ![]()
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