Book Review: Readings
Meredith Brosnan
Reviewed by Shawn Badgley, Fri., July 16, 2004
Mr. Dynamite
by Meredith Brosnan(Dalkey Archive, $13.50, paper)
This is a story of a punk-rock slacker well past his prime and one big blown chance. It's a risky, aggressive debut effort from Brosnan – whose life more than mirrors his protagonist, Jarleth Prendergast's – but it works out more than well. Much like the author's plays, it moves fast and it's funny, its prose a ramshackle pile of epistolary, poetry, and colloquial stream-of-consciousness.
