![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Living with Martyn is his gun-savvy, tough, wood-wise daughter and alcoholic father, making My Absolute Daring a tale of simmering hatred, love, jealousy, and sexual violence that occasionally crosses over into actual, physical violence. ![]() It’s set in remote, coastal woodlands of northern California, where a verbose survivalist called Martyn lives in a rambling house that has seen better days. But it is flawed and falls far short of being the masterpiece that King seems to think it is. That isn’t to say that My Absolute Darling is entirely unworthy of the praise and the hype. In particular by Stephen King, who declared it a ‘masterpiece’ comparable to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, after which, the literary world seemingly fell over itself in order to queue up and lavish further glory on this, Gabriel Tallent’s first novel. I would add, nor by its reviews, for My Absolute Darling – the story of a survivalist who abuses and berates his fourteen year old daughter, Julia (or Turtle as she is nicknamed) in equal measure, has been praised to the heavens. Don’t judge a book by its cover people say. ![]()
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