Straight Through the Night: A Novel

By Edward Allen

Book Overview

Allen's novel is about flesh and love, despair and food, and anger. Wildly ambitious and daring, it is a high-wire act of a novel and literally brilliant with description, luminous insight and loony... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939149192
• ISBN13: 9780939149193
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Soho Pr Inc
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

remarkable prose

Ed Allen writes as beautifully and as haunting as Nabokov. Read this book as well as his other novel, Mustang Sally, and you'll know what I'm talking about. Great stuff.

Amazing novel, doesn't spare the reader a thing.

The loneliness and reality portrayed in this book is unforgettable. It has been a year since I've read this book and I can't forget Chuck, his story, and alienation. Not a word is wasted; even the chapter titles add to the flesh, blood, veins, and human emotion depicted in this book. Through the character of Chuck, Allen makes his point about romance, New York, meat, and people with poignancy and without apology.