Allan Smulling
It's the 'feel good' book of the ages.
I read this in college over 30 years ago. I have to admit that I didn't remember much about it and thought that maybe it was time to revisit this classic. Now that I've reached the end of the story, I wonder if I actually finished the book when I was in school! I was always kind of a nervous, conscientious student so not having completed the book would have been really out of character for me -- but damn(!), I didn't remember most if not all of the story. Yikes!
Anyway... very depressing. No one's happy. Everyone is ill in oh, so many ways and many characters threaten to throw themselves into the river. And, thinking upon it -- I can't blame them.
It's the 'feel good' book of the ages.
I read this in college over 30 years ago. I have to admit that I didn't remember much about it and thought that maybe it was time to revisit this classic. Now that I've reached the end of the story, I wonder if I actually finished the book when I was in school! I was always kind of a nervous, conscientious student so not having completed the book would have been really out of character for me -- but damn(!), I didn't remember most if not all of the story. Yikes!
Anyway... very depressing. No one's happy. Everyone is ill in oh, so many ways and many characters threaten to throw themselves into the river. And, thinking upon it -- I can't blame them.