This Is the Place
A Fiction book. This was the weirdest of Rock's books. It was a strange love...
Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada and faces east. The sign under him reads "This Is The Place." Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, proclaiming the same thing, "This Is The Place."This Is the Place is the sinister story of an aged and lonely blackjack dealer living in Wendover, who becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah. It is a story of love, perhaps doomed, told by an endearing misanthrope who may be delusional, but who has managed to coalesce his manias into an alternative understanding that lies somewhere between Wendover Will's depravity and Brigham Young's morality:"The dispute between Will and Brigham is not for me to settle, nor would I want it settled. The words hang over the salt flats, the most forsaken stretch of earth, a terrifying expanse of sheer space, white, like another planet, hard and smooth where nothing can live. This all sounds so...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780385485982 / 385485980
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This was the weirdest of Rock's books. It was a strange love story. Charlotte, a searching, Mormom girl, who was loved/worshipped/obsessed over, by a 70 year old man who dealt cards in a casino. Charlotte knew Johnson quietly followed her, kept a watch out for her, and even spied on her,but she tolerated his sick infatuation. She took... I got 69 pages in and gave up. I read My Abandonment and really like it so I looked up his other books. This one was not good, it's about an old man that lives by himself and is obsesed with a younger woman. The story didn't seem to be going anywhere. I will try his other books and give him a chance. Picked it up used at Green Apple for a dollar to see what Pete Rock's stuff is really like. And actually, I liked it a lot for a while. The descriptions of the desert, the slow fleshing out of the characters are soothing and unsettling at the same time, and that's freaking hard to pull off. But he never ties it all together in the end....
