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Paperboy: 05/03/20
Paperboy by Vince Vawter is set in Memphis in July, 1959. Little Man as the housekeeper Mam calls him loves to play baseball and loves to type out his thoughts on his typewriter. What he's not good at is talking. He stutters. The novel is told through his typed monolog of the events. As grammar also isn't his thing the passages lack most punctuation. The sentences tend to run on. His dialog is also rendered without punctuation, except that he includes all his stuttering. To put it bluntly, this book is tedious to read. It's a monotone, run on sentence, chore. But if it's your type of book, there's also a sequel, Copy Boy (2018) Two stars Comments (0) |