Immaculate Blue

From the award winning author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel Immaculate Blue, which explores the lives of four people Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia and their intermingled and unwinding desires Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation Russell picks up the thread of his critically acclaimed novel The Salt Point 20 years later and tracks the lives of these friends, some of whom not only lost touch with each other but have also lost their way Moving, at times shocking, and always memorable, Immaculate Blue points to where the personal and the political come together and shape our lives in unexpected ways With this newest novel, Paul Russell reminds us of why he is one of the most important voices on the literary scene. Best Read [ Immaculate Blue ] Author [ Paul Russell ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Immaculate Blue is about nothing and yet about everything, particularly if you are gay and your wonder years were in the late 80 s and early 90 s If you read Russell s The Salt Point from 1990, this book follows the same group of friends now twenty years later as their paths cross again in Poughkeepsie for a wedding No worries if you haven t read The Salt Point though you won t be lost.The story unfolds in three long chapters in which Russell weaves back and forth between the different Immaculate Blue is about nothing and yet about everything, particularly if you are gay and your wonder years were in the late 80 s and early 90 s If you read Russell s The Salt Point from 1990, th...Some novels present a protagonist that the reader follows through a series of events or conflicts These types of narratives are pretty standard That s not what you re going to find here This book constantly shifts perspective and drifts from one person to another effortlessly Paul Russell is a master at this technique that allows the reader to become so immersed in the mind of the characters that their lives become as important as our own We live through them vicariously The real problem Some novels present a protagonist that the reader follows through a series of events or conflicts These t...I m going to be very honest Paul Russell is excellent writer and that s what got it three stars As far as story and characters I cannot believe how much I disliked both I thought each character was vile in their 0wn way and I couldn t wait for this to end I mean it ...It is fitting that Paul Russell bookends his first novel with a seamless sequel that is the best book this peerless author has written to date I loved the way Russell continues the story of Lydia, Anatole, Chris and Leigh in a way that comments on some of the most divisive socio political issues facing the gay community today.The biggest set piece is the marriage between Anatole and his long time lover Rafa, in the wake of New York State allowing gay marriage Russell s depiction of the married It is fitting that Paul Russell bookends his first novel with a seamless sequel that is the best book this peerless author has written to date I loved the way Russell continues the story of Lydia, Anatole, Chris and Leigh in a way that comments on some of the most divisive s...Sequel to The Salt Point, written twenty five years later Also takes up the characters lives twenty five years later, and they re all quite different Too different, in my opinion, particularly Chris There are attempts to explain the changes, but they re insufficient again, especially with Chris Not a happy book Couldn t put it dow...Any time I finish a book in two days it gets at least 4 stars I had just finished reading The Salt Point, and immediately started Immaculate Blue, which picks up the same characters from Salt Point 20 years later I recommend reading the two books that way The flaws I saw i...I loved Immaculate Blue which took place 20 years after The Salt Point I often find myself very invested in the lives of the characters in the books that I read I loved catching up with the friends from The Salt Point twenty years later, and I wishauthors would follow up on their characters.This book was a sequel to The Salt Point which I had read a number of years ago and takes place almost 30 years later The central character is not a nice person and he revisits people whom he knew in the past for no discernible reason I enjoyed this...Uncomfortably adult The only reason you never mention a person s existence to your lover is because you don t want to diminish their secret power by putting it into words That was the fifth star for meReread the Salt Point before this, this is sequel to Salt Point, also read again War Against the Animals

• English
• 06 May 2019
Paul Russell
• Paperback
• 227 pages
• 1627780955
• Paul Russell
• Immaculate Blue