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Charles Blackstone. The Week You Weren't Here.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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 ...
- Author appearances.(Time Out!)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) August 12, 2005 700+ words
...16 at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St., Chicago. Call (312) 747-4300. - Chicago author Charles Blackstone will sign copies of his book, "The Week You Weren't Here," at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18 at Barbara's Bookstore...
- Floods besiege Bay State in spring thaw.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Ross, Casey April 3, 2005 700+ words
...Weather service officials said they expected the flooding to be the worst since the spring of 1987, when waters from the Charles, Blackstone, and Connecticut rivers caused widespread damage. "Most of the smallest streams and rivers are near being full and...
- After years on the street, they mark a new beginning Thirty graduates of the...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Slobodzian, Joseph A. April 22, 2006 700+ words
...addition to Fletcher, the other Ready, Willing & Able graduates honored last night were Herbert Adams, Charles Blackstone, Sylvester Brown, Vernon Brown, Vincent Costello, William Dingle, Samuel Drummond, Michael Ellis, Elmer...
- Ready to mark new beginning: thirty graduates of the Ready, Willing and Able...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Slobodzian, Joseph A. April 23, 2006 700+ words
...addition to Fletcher, the other Ready, Willing and Able graduates honored Friday night were Herbert Adams, Charles Blackstone, Sylvester Brown, Vernon Brown, Vincent Costello, William Dingle, Samuel Drummond, Michael Ellis, Elmer...
- Fight with cancer deepened woman's faith
- Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News Jorge Valencia September 26, 2009 700+ words
...Do you have medical insurance?" "She would grab you by the shoulders, grab you by the face to get around you," said Hunter Flanagan, a friend and teammate. By the time she was diagnosed in September 2008, and was recovering from the removal of back...
