Halves

by Larry Francis

Will the answer to one question be the difference between life and death?HALVES is a dystopian story of survival. A wealthy old man and an underprivileged teenager are thrown together by fate and must learn to understand one another if they are both to survive."Cyclonic, irreverent and heartwarming, HALVES examines nothing less than what it means to be human."

181 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2013

About the author

Larry Francis is an American novelist originally from Chicago. Francis is the author of six works of fiction. He lives in France.

Reviews

[Scott Stavrou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Though short in length, it's long in scope and ambition and insights. At its heart it purports to be simple tale of two individuals of two very disparate backgrounds and stages in life but it is much more than that, it's a well-written and pithy chronicle of how we fragile human beings deal with life when life itself is at stake.

Like so many of the best stories, it revolves around ordinary man's struggle for identity and belief in a world veering inexorably toward entropy. Francis straddles this bisected set-up masterfully, with Joycean-style stream of consciousness thoughts that disect both the biggest and the smallest issues, from the meaning of life and existence to the place of pop-culture, the internet and Oprah in the modern world. In a world that changes so quickly, a book that can make you analyze identity and make you think is a good read, indeed.