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| Title | : | All We Need of Hell |
| Author | : | Harry Crews |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 162 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1988 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. American. Southern |
Harry Crews
Paperback | Pages: 162 pages Rating: 3.93 | 487 Users | 48 Reviews
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Really, I can't believe I liked this book as much as I did. The characters are not likable for the first 100 pages (out of 160), and the situations are bizarre. But, with that being said, Crews takes the characterizations to the extreme and makes the situations so over the top that hilarity just has to ensue from there.Duffy Deeter is the main character of the novel. He is a forty-something lawyer, obsessed with his body and working out. He has a wife who is obsessed with her looks and an 8-year-old son who is a mama's boy and eats all the junk food he wants. Duffy also has a mistress, who I couldn't tell if his wife knew about and didn't care or if she just didn't know about the other one.
The opening scene has Duffy showing up to play a game of handball against a professional football player named Tump. What should have been a friendly game turns into a fist fight wherein Duffy gets one tooth knocked out and one broken. I kept returning to this image throughout the book because while that tooth is only mentioned by his wife upon first seeing him, but that broken tooth remains through all the other crazy things that happen.
Duffy gets into a falling out with his law partner, as he set up Duffy for the showdown with Tump, and it doesn't end there because the partner starts sleeping with Duffy's wife - and they are not very discreet about it either. So, Duffy's wife then wants a divorce and his law partner wants Duffy out of the firm. Duffy's bank account is wiped out, the locks on his house are changed and he is left with the winnebago he was about to go on vacation with his wife and son. Duffy is down, but he will not stay down. He vows revenge against his law partner and wife.
He then makes a strange alliance with Tump, the man who knocked out his tooth. They become friends in these circumstances and Tump bonds with Duffy's son in a way Duffy never had before. This friendship causes Duffy to look at his son in a different light. The ending is somewhat heartwarming for such a bizarre plot with cartoonish characters.
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| Original Title: | All We Need of Hell: A Novel |
| ISBN: | 0060914602 (ISBN13: 9780060914608) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Florida(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 487 Users | 48 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books All We Need of Hell
I love this novel. Almost every page has at least one idea, phase or wise turn i wish i could easily remember or quote when i needed it, which would be often.Read this one a long time ago, back when I was just a dorky 21-year-old working summers in a map store in downtown Vancouver. Was picking out books at random in the library and reading them cover to cover. This one was one of my pleasant surprises and had me chuckling all the way through. Real rollicking read and very much as irreverent as its title suggests.
Really, I can't believe I liked this book as much as I did. The characters are not likable for the first 100 pages (out of 160), and the situations are bizarre. But, with that being said, Crews takes the characterizations to the extreme and makes the situations so over the top that hilarity just has to ensue from there.Duffy Deeter is the main character of the novel. He is a forty-something lawyer, obsessed with his body and working out. He has a wife who is obsessed with her looks and an
This tough guy prose is pretty cool. Florida guy through and through
I am going to read all of Harry Crews because I like that kinda thing. He's the kinda author you know you like or not after one page. It don't change too much (at least regarding his fiction), but that's a good thing. Strong on oddball characters and even odder premises, this book is no different. Duffy Deeter is a lawyer that tries hard to remain human through infidelity, intoxication, working-out, and honest violence. I'm not even going to try and track the plot for you--in EVERYTHING I've
Really, I can't believe I liked this book as much as I did. The characters are not likable for the first 100 pages (out of 160), and the situations are bizarre. But, with that being said, Crews takes the characterizations to the extreme and makes the situations so over the top that hilarity just has to ensue from there.Duffy Deeter is the main character of the novel. He is a forty-something lawyer, obsessed with his body and working out. He has a wife who is obsessed with her looks and an
I don't think this actually merits a 4, but it's not really a 3 either... I feel more comfortable with the 3 though. There's some sexist, racist shit going on that bothers me a bit, and the Southern/humor factor(s) don't really account for it, or justify it.
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