Review of 'The ecstatic, or, Homunculus' on 'Goodreads'
Didn’t expect to DNF a LaValle book, but I saw there’s SA, and I’m very much avoiding that in my books at the moment.
272 pages
English language
Published April 20, 2002 by Crown Publishers.
Review of 'The ecstatic, or, Homunculus' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This book reminded me of Confederacy of Dunces in the way it wields comedy as a tool against despair. As a debut novel, this made me interested to see what else LaValle has up his sleeve, as he demonstrates a sharp-edged, dry wit here that could blossom into a more profound extirpation of the status quo with time.
Subjects
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Fatherless families -- Fiction.
- Schizophrenics -- Fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
- Uganda -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.