Sarah Weinman has read it
http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2007/01/metamorphosis_i.html
and corresponded with the author:
http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2007/01/how_william_las_1.html
Karin
At 08:02 AM 24/01/2007 +1100, Stever Gerlach wrote:
>I have been thinking about purchasing this book too,
Ron. Anyone here had a
>chance to read it? Or heard good things about
it?
>
> _____
>
>From: R. & J. Clinton [mailto:
clinton65@comcast.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2007 5:05 AM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: KOCKROACH by Tyler
Knox...
>
>Has anyone tried this literary'ish Kafkaesuqe take on
the noir novel?
>
>http://www.amazon.
><
http://www.amazon.com/Kockroach-Novel-Tyler-Knox/dp/0061143332/sr=1-1/qid=1
>169575298/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8334839-3512934?ie=UTF8&s=books>
>com/Kockroach-Novel-Tyler-Knox/dp/0061143332/sr=1-1/qid=1169575298/ref=pd_bb
>s_sr_1/102-8334839-3512934?ie=UTF8&s=books
>
> From Publishers Weekly
>Starred Review. Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is turned on
its antennae in this
>roaringly entertaining noir novel. Knox's debut
begins with a cockroach
>waking up to find he has been transformed into a man.
Kockroach, however,
>doesn't lapse into despair, but instead demonstrates
the relentless survival
>instinct of his species by learning how to get by in
the human world.
>Helping him is pint-size Times Square hustler Mickey
"Mite" Pimelia, who
>sees in Kockroach (or, as he's known to humans, Jer
ry Blatta) his ticket to
>the top. Sex, organized crime, violence, betrayal and
success follow for
>Kockroach, whose insect's sense of amorality aids his
ascent. Meanwhile,
>Celia, a crippled but beautiful woman, befriends Mite
and finds herself
>drawn to Kockroach. Knox's inhuman antihero's tale is
told in flawless noir
>style-Kockroach's coldness juxtaposed against Mite's
bitter
>self-recrimination in a seedy, smoky 1950s New
York-and Kockroach's insights
>into that New York are perversely delightful. The
book's conceptual
>cleverness is ultimately eclipsed by the epic story
line, making for a
>compelling story of greed and power that is more
Chandler than Kafka. (Jan.)
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