The Total View of Taftly: A Novel

By Scott M. Morris

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892514702
• ISBN13: 9781892514707
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Hill Street Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Kafka, Move Over!

Scott Morris makes Franz Kafka look like a bush league pinch hitter. No one I have read more accurately depicts, not only with psychological penetration but with astonishingly beautiful language, the temper of the times. Not Kafka, not Pinchon. Moreover, we have in Morris a Dostoevskian talent for discovering aesthetic salvation amidst the inner terror and confusion that is symptomatic of "modernity." Morris demonstrates that nihilism need not culminate in nihilism, but as in Ecclesiastes, there is salvation found in brutal honesty. Grace happens. Not to be critical of the beautiful presentation by Hill Street Press, but if THE TOTAL VIEW OF TAFTLY had been published by an Upper West Side publisher, Morris would be buying his tickets for Oslo and dusting off his tux. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating of it. You will have to suffer through the same panic as Dennis, Taftly, et al, to arrive at the same destination. So pick it up and read it! Owen Jones Aiken, SC

FLAT OUT BRILLIANT

I picked this book up at The Southern Book Festival in Nashville. I bought it on Saturday, finished it on Sunday afternoon...barely put it dowm. Scott Morris has a remarkable gift for language, a splendid ear for dialogue, and the finest, edgiest sense of humor I've run across in years. Here's a book full of puns, wit, wordplay, scholarship, droll asides, and ruminations on philosophy,family and religion....yet it still has a great story to tell. Just a gem. If you buy only a single book this year, this should be the one.

A splendid view

This debut novel is poignant, funny, and bittersweet. I'll be looking for more from Scott Morris.

Debut book a hit

Scott Morris has a perfect hit with his first novel, "A Total View of Taftly," (working title: "The Road To Taftly"). Morris writes with a certain specific eloquence, each word is a piece of art. He really proves that you can't just read a book to find out what's going to happen next; you have to dissect each phrase, each character because then and only then will you receive all you can from the book. And there is a lot to get out of his book; the characters exhibit traits that are universal, making it easy to relate to the sequences that arrive in the chapters. Morris comes from an extremely talented family; his father, Max, is also a best-selling author, and Scott is sure to become one with more books like this!