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Published: July 19, 2009
Words: 168725 (approximate)
Language: English
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MISTAH is a visceral and visual tale of a young man from Coney Island who falls in love with a black, Creole woman from New Orleans. Each is on a journey from their dysfunctional upbringings on the road to self-discovery. It encompasses the turbulence and coming of age in the 1960’s, the belief in love and ideals, and the slow, hard won knowledge that life has a price for all of us.Adult-content rating:
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new orleans, coney island, interacial loveAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
JACK MARKOWITZ
on July 24, 2009 :
(no rating)
With the recent publication of MISTAH (Smashwords.com, 2009) author Norman Savage has rediscovered the art of writing as a kind of life giving force capable of reviving (and redeeming) even the most lost of souls and broken hearted. MISTAH is disguised as a kind of roman a cle, described as a work of fiction, yet more closely related to a work of friction, where the fictitious elements intermingle with the real until the two can no longer be separated. Like the narrator anti-hero in the classic film Sunset Boulevard, Savage’s anti-hero (and, we might as well admit it, alter ego), Max Heller, back tracks a story of an inter-racial love affair set against a backdrop of familial hatreds and societal taboos where dark forces conspire to thwart the two star crossed lovers.
Although only recently published, MISTAH actually was written some seven years prior to the publication of Savage’s even more recent ground-breaking memoir JUNK SICK (Smashwords.com, 2009). Readers of JUNK SICK will quickly see the obvious connections in the narrative that the two books have in common though within MISTAH names have been changed to protect the not so innocent. While some parts of the book read like excerpts from Casino Royale (as Max scores big at the crap tables and then takes off in his Porsche for the Big Easy) who among us can say that we are not all, in one way or another, the sum of our pop cultural influences? I really liked the ambiance descriptions of New Orleans - the smells and sounds and feel of the places, some seedy others extraordinary, that the author narrator describes. MISTAH is a good read on several levels, as pure escapism or for its sifting nuances in mood and style. MISTAH can stand alone as a roman noir mystery in the tradition of Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon or as a bookend to JUNK SICK. Perhaps the two books will prove to be just two excerpts from a much larger yet to be published body of work. Only time will tell. Reviewed by Jack Henry Markowitz July, 2009.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)