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Charles Blackstone. The Week You Weren't Here.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

| June 22, 2004 | Tinkler, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2004 Review of Contemporary Fiction. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Charles Blackstone. The Week You Weren't Here. Flame, 2004. 326 pp. Paper: 8.00 [pounds sterling].

To launch his first novel, The Week You Weren't Here, Charles Blackstone utilizes a Franz Kafka epigraph: "'It amuses me,' said K., 'only because it gives me some insight into the ridiculous tangle that may under certain circumstances determine a person's life.'" In the novel the person's life is Hunter Flanagan's; the ridiculous tangle, a web of love interests and a forthcoming move to graduate school (after a leisurely stroll through college). Interestingly enough, the Kafka epigraph informs both the novel's strengths and its weaknesses. The Week You Weren't Here is a commendable collage of centrifugal amusements. Yet if insight is important, as it is to Kafka, the novel falls short since the amusements do not lead to a ...

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