Three stars is about as high as one goes for contemporary fiction--we're not running a review service here, so late and early we're forced into choosing between the best of everything and the best of what's right now: those two bodies may or may not overlap, but probably do not. Anyway, I've just...
A good sequel to a great first book, The Blue Star continues the story of Jim in rural N Carolina. The writing remains excellent though I was to as moved as I was in Jim The Boy.In the first novel, it seems to me that Earley began with a sentiment and feeling that he wished to elicit in the rea...
Jim the Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Tony Earley, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2000. It details a year in the life of Jim Glass, who lives, with his mother and three uncles, in the small fictional town of Aliceville, North Carolina in 1934 during the Great Depression.
Evelyn believes the cars passing her house contain secret agents come to watch her, that the boys who play basketball across the road want to see her naked. Her feet inside her bedroom shoes are slowly turning black. Hardy dabs at a spot on her thigh with a cotton ball dip...