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Animation
What do you do if you’re 53 years old, your ex-wife says you look like Joe Pesci and you’ve just lost your job? Well, if you’re Adonis Augustinius Agystyn -- usually called “Aggie” -- you sit in your one bedroom Chicago apartment, watch TV and eat rib tips at the nearby fast food restaurant. Until, one day you meet someone who you think can change your life -- except she’s a 19 year old single mom with a sick baby and a sicker mother, and the two of you have absolutely nothing in common.
"Animation" is the sometimes comic, sometimes poignant story of a man in search of the meaning of his life and of life itself, the detours he must navigate and the hurdles he must -- try -- to clear in order to answer the eternal question: What Is My Life About?
"Animation" is the sometimes comic, sometimes poignant story of a man in search of the meaning of his life and of life itself, the detours he must navigate and the hurdles he must -- try -- to clear in order to answer the eternal question: What Is My Life About?
398 pages, Paperback
First published August 25, 2015
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February 1, 2016
I've read a few of Evan's works (published one---his play, Nighthawks, back when I was a publisher as neoNuma Arts), including the short story version of Animation that appeared in his collection, American Blues. This is some of his "lighter" writing, as in it had more humor.
The themes and explorations remain, however, serious if not heavy.
The main character, Aggie, is a middle aged man (a year older than me, which made some things a little close to home) who is gong through a number of changes. Divorce, laid off from work, living alone for the first time in decades. In short, if he wasn't going to have a midlife crisis, this would have forced it upon him. A lot of the transition is awkward and painful to "watch."
I don't want to give too much detail, as there are things that happen along the way that took me by surprise. It's enough to say that for a novel about the meaning of life and grappling with mortality, the reader will find much to smile about, even as the reader is pushed to grapple a little bit, too. I very much recommend Animation.
The themes and explorations remain, however, serious if not heavy.
The main character, Aggie, is a middle aged man (a year older than me, which made some things a little close to home) who is gong through a number of changes. Divorce, laid off from work, living alone for the first time in decades. In short, if he wasn't going to have a midlife crisis, this would have forced it upon him. A lot of the transition is awkward and painful to "watch."
I don't want to give too much detail, as there are things that happen along the way that took me by surprise. It's enough to say that for a novel about the meaning of life and grappling with mortality, the reader will find much to smile about, even as the reader is pushed to grapple a little bit, too. I very much recommend Animation.
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