Call Me Kick!: Iliads/Odysseys/Ills and Odds Uneven

By John Osander

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931646694
• ISBN13: 9781931646697
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Beavers Pond Pr
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Truly a good novel

"I am in awe. . . . It's so well-written and researched, and Kick is a wonderful, brilliant creation. . . . The book's not only aesthetically beautiful, but also consists of some of the best writing stylistically, that I've come across in a long time. It is a book that will hold a prominent place on my shelves--amongst such authors as Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner."

Kick's Drive to Rescue Uncle Nick: A Journey of Discovery

Portraying youth and young love in the 1950s with a romantic and comedic nostalgia, Osander's first novel, "Country Matters," showed an affinity to F. Scott Fitzgerald's tales of the Jazz Age. "Call Me Kick!" goes one better in its homage to "The Great Gatsby," taking readers back in real and fictional time to Fitzgerald's-and Nick Carraway's-native St. Paul in the 1930s. The Summit Avenue elite and nomadic gangsters, a state mental asylum's modern gothic horrors, and a shared national radio culture recreate the ambience of the aftermath of the Twenties around the figure of Kick Carraway, a spunky and resilient representative of a new "younger generation." ("My pace calls for wicked hammer strokes and chisel chips.") Her story moves from intriguing to compelling as Kick's Nancy Drewish drive to rescue Uncle Nick becomes a journey of self-discovery."

One Hundred Percent Masterpiece!

I was engaged from the start, and kept savoring my very limited reading time, hiding away with Kick for ten minutes here, twenty there, like a guilty pleasure. Such a wonderful trip to St. Paul, and back in time! "Call Me Kick!" is part coming-of-age, part thriller, part analysis of depression and its treatment, but one hundred percent masterpiece. Best of all is the word play between Kick and her uncle-written on so many levels-truly sublime.