Time Sharing

by Richard Krawiec

Book Overview

This riveting, hilarious, and deeply moving novel looks at two people who live on the margins of our society. Artie is a petty thief, a would-be con man, and when he sees Jolene Jello wrestling at a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595185444
• ISBN13: 9780595185443
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

gritty

This book is a gritty heartbreaker. The reader oscillates from pity, to endearment, to anger at the characters. The characters are unforgettable and come to life in this book. I wanted to stop reading, but I couldn't.

Real life as art.

Krawiec writes well about people Paul Fussell referred to in his book "Class" as being "bottom-out-of-sight," those people huddled in doorways, drab bus depots, smokey barrooms, park benches, that we walk by without noticing every day. The couple in this novel, Jolene and Artie, are as lost as a couple can be, and yet they find love. Krawiec makes the drama of this down-and-out couple, who truly have no education, no money, and no prospects whatsoever except for their love, both amusing and painful to behold. Even worse are the scenes with Jolene feeding her baby soda. This is great fiction that deserves to be read, and fits snugly in the naturalist tradition that goes from Zola to Dreiser to Frank Norris to Erskine Caldwell.

Time Sharing

One of the best and most painful books I've read.