A review by orndal
Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne
4.0
Some of the best sentences from "Wild Abandon":
She was so lithe as to be, Don later claimed, ‘indistinguishable from the water she passed through’.
‘You thought it was chemical attraction; she thought it was paint fumes.’
Back in the house, they found Kit Lintel pouring orange juice into Kit Lintel’s father’s laptop.
In the live music yurt, a man was either doing a very downbeat, a cappella, unplugged version of ‘Help!’ by The Beatles or he was genuinely asking for assistance.
All in all, it's very hard to categorize Dunthorne's works. They have moments of greatness; but are often lost in between. "Wild Abandon" is about what happens after the hippie dream dies. It's about a commune falling apart, and how the different members deal with it. It's about the fact that life has no happy ever after, unless we find it ourselves.
She was so lithe as to be, Don later claimed, ‘indistinguishable from the water she passed through’.
‘You thought it was chemical attraction; she thought it was paint fumes.’
Back in the house, they found Kit Lintel pouring orange juice into Kit Lintel’s father’s laptop.
In the live music yurt, a man was either doing a very downbeat, a cappella, unplugged version of ‘Help!’ by The Beatles or he was genuinely asking for assistance.
All in all, it's very hard to categorize Dunthorne's works. They have moments of greatness; but are often lost in between. "Wild Abandon" is about what happens after the hippie dream dies. It's about a commune falling apart, and how the different members deal with it. It's about the fact that life has no happy ever after, unless we find it ourselves.