Mr. Shivers
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only. Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly's daughter. No one knows him, but everyone knows his name: Mr. Shivers. In this extraordinary debut, Robert Jackson Bennett tells the story of an America haunted by murder and desperation. A world in which one man must face a dark truth and answer the question-how much is he willing to sacrifice for his satisfaction?
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Started out well enough, with a strong atmosphere of mystery and dread, but just wore out its welcome with repetitive, unconvincing encounters with groups who were either white hats or black hats. The starkly Manichean perspective which oversimplifies a complex world fails to engage over an extended period and eventually caused me to lose interest. There are some evocative passages, and Bennett can write well, but I found this considerably less successful than “A Company Man”, which had various shades of grey, bringing its depiction of the world closer to the complexity of my perception and experience of it. After all the hype I've read about Robert Jackson Bennett, this book left me disappointed.
