- Paperback: 269 pages
- Publisher: HarperPerennial; Reprint edition (31 May 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060915749
- ISBN-13: 978-0060915742
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 853,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Perhaps the best work of the great Harry Crews.
10 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
I am a huge Harry Crews fan. No one writes quite like this hyperrealistic gothic southern writer, and no one can create such bizarre characters in so few pages. Indeed, I have read "The Knockout Artist" several times, and always get something different out of it. As always, Crews concerns himself with the larger questions in life, especially how to maintain one's moral compass in a surreal amoral world (here its New Orleans), but he also creates characters as compelling as one can find in late 20th century fiction. You will root for the main character and never forget those that he meets along the way.
To address one of the other reviews, in Crews' world, it is hardly surprising that there are people who would pay handsomely to see someone knock himself unconscious. I am sure that in the underbelly of any major city, (which certainly would include New Orleans!) there are those who have desires far stranger than this.
I urge you to read this book. If you like it, run out and buy "A Feast of Snakes," which is just as good.
To address one of the other reviews, in Crews' world, it is hardly surprising that there are people who would pay handsomely to see someone knock himself unconscious. I am sure that in the underbelly of any major city, (which certainly would include New Orleans!) there are those who have desires far stranger than this.
I urge you to read this book. If you like it, run out and buy "A Feast of Snakes," which is just as good.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Over the top, yes, but for good reason.
3 Jan 2003
Format:Paperback
Sometimes to satirize one must approach the extreme, venture into the unbelievable or explore the ridiculous. I'm sorry one of the reviewers failed to grasp this. The Knockout Artist is one of the finest pieces of fiction ever written by a contemporary American author. It grabs at the heartstrings and yanks them out of tune, then proceeds to play Mariachi in dropped D tuning.
I laughed, I cried,....
In seriousness, Harry Crews is going to be one of those authors who will be taught in college courses fifty years from now, well after he's dead and gone. We are fortunate to be living at the same time as a legend.
I laughed, I cried,....
In seriousness, Harry Crews is going to be one of those authors who will be taught in college courses fifty years from now, well after he's dead and gone. We are fortunate to be living at the same time as a legend.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
freaks, fighters, and moral struggles to survive
23 Sep 1996
Format:Paperback
when all you have is one occupation, one talent, one desire and your denied the "glory" of being at the top you settle for what pays your bills. talents big and small can be made into a capital gaining venture but when you lose some bit of respect for yourself what is that you really have left
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