The Nix: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01I5HLAZ8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a politically divided country. In Norwegian folklore it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: She's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson - college professor, stal
"This is something special. A great big read from a great big talent with a great big heart." according to RobynJC. Samuel is an underachieving assistant professor of literature at a nothing college outside Chicago who dislikes his students, spends way too much time playing an online fantasy game, got a huge advance for a novel he never wrote, and is pining for the girl he loved when he was eleven. His life is stalled out big time, but he is dragged out of stasis when his estranged mother, who abandoned him when he was eleven and has never been heard from since, makes national headlines for throwing rocks at a Presidential candidate - she is the Packer Attacker! Through a ridiculous series of eve. "Great story but it wanders to distraction" according to newbie critic. I enjoyed the book, was pulled through the plot, and would read it again. But it has some characteristics that made me wish the author had done a better job and not wasted a wonderful plot line and perspective on something so rough.The descriptive text wanders so far out into tangential details that I kept wondering why Hill would bother taking us there. Seemed as if he had a list of book ideas and fixated character treatments and was determined to use them all up in a first novel. Why not save a few for the next book, rather than jam them all into The Nix where they became a distra. You should read it like yesterday. WOW. What a book! This book is about so much it is hard to know where to start. Politics, abandonment, pop culture, generational differences, sexual abuse, the human condition, forgiveness, self loathing. Its about being a mother, a son, a father, a sister, a brother, a child, an adult, an idealist, a cynic, a soldier, a teacher, a student and so on. The bottom line is, this book will break your heart in to tiny pieces and lift your soul too. This author writes with so much empathy and understanding of what it is to be human, what it is to be alive. You will squirm, there are things