He’s too distant, too thoughtful, very analytical, and even clueless. Zajac is a minor character, but he is the opposite of Patrick. (No spoilers: it happens in the first few pages).ĭr. Then he loses his left hand in a lion accident. In each port, he panders his cavalier, sleeping with women without forethought or remorse.
He trots the globe covering disasters and small tragedies for the spectacle-obsessed audience. Patrick Wallingford is a cavalier reporter for a sensational news channel. Still, his little inventions often strain my suspension of disbelief.Īll of these are true for The Fourth Hand. He writes very clean sentences they’re amazingly adept and easy to read.Ħ. Irving also loves those moments of sweetness, to the point that they can become syrupy at times, like at the end of Owen Meany.ĥ. Irving loves the little bits of weirdness, like the woman in the bear costume in The Hotel New Hampshire.Ĥ.
There is also always some intriguing but slightly distant female.ģ. They can be clueless, happy-go-lucky, confused, aimless, grief-stricken…Ģ. He always seems to have a discombobulated male as his central character, Garp, the narrator in A Prayer for Owen Meany, the dad in The Hotel New Hampshire, and the young orphan in The Cider House Rules.
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