I recently read Peter Abrahams' Oblivion. Though I have since
read about Abrahams in the RA Archives, I was not familair
with him until Joyce Carole Oates' New Yorker review of
Oblivion last year.
I'll keep this short and say that though I enjoyed the book
greatly and even have Abrahams' next one on my shelf waiting
to be read, I thought the conclusion was so obvious and
telegraphed that I'm slighlty worried I missed some sort of
meta lesson on P.I. narratives that Abrahams was using the
book to convey. Was this true for anyone else?
I should add that I almost never see plot mechanics coming.
Connelly, in particular, spins me like a top every time
out.
In addition to Abrahams' End of Story, the others on deck are
Bruin's Cabre and Scott Smith's The Ruins.
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