The Shimmering Go-Between: A Novel, by Lee Klein
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The Shimmering Go-Between: A Novel, by Lee Klein
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On one of its many levels The Shimmering Go-Between is a love story: love between a man and a woman, a man and himself, the outer man and the inner man, the big man and the little woman or rather women in this case. And then there’s Brad Pitt.
While this daring narrative begins with Dolores, a remarkably and immaculately fertile character, the story is ultimately overtaken by beardy-man Wilson, whose search for love within and beyond himself can only be described as all-consuming. His approach to love involves mainly putting things in his mouth. The consumption-as-love theme cannot be stressed enough here, and then there’s Brad Pitt.
On yet another level, this story is also very much about The Woman: woman as drug, aphrodisiac, innocent, object, pet and, for lack of a better word, snack. Yes, snack. But also as Goddess, Supreme Mother and doughy office worker.
The novel’s title, taken from a Nabokov quote, gives us some insight into what Lee Klein is doing here: “Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall tale, there is a shimmering go-between.” The “go-between” is the art of literature or the place where belief and disbelief overlap. Being asked to believe the unbelievable, in the words of Wilson, is “like being told you’re a werewolf when you’ve never once awoken with a mouthful of chicken feathers.” It’s almost like being told you can Wile E. Coyote to the bottom of the canyon, hit the ground at 100 mph and crawl out of the Wile E.-shaped crater with only the slightest of headaches.
An intricately layered debut that manages to reorganize the landscapes of conception, birth, death, heaven and New Jersey, Klein leads the reader to a ledge of unbelievability and dares the reader to believe . . . and then he pushes you off that ledge. Giggling.
A modern meditation on loss and renewal, The Shimmering Go-Between is recommended for readers who want innovation and whimsy without losing the heart and soul that makes a story resonate long after it’s read.
The Shimmering Go-Between: A Novel, by Lee Klein- Amazon Sales Rank: #2352648 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
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''A moving, modern meditation on loss and renewal, The Shimmering Go-Between is recommended for readers who want innovation and whimsy without losing the heart and soul that makes a story resonate long after it's been read.'' --Foreword Reviews
''An intricately layered debut novel that manages to reorganize the landscapes of conception, birth, death, Heaven and New Jersey . . . Klein leads the reader to a ledge of unbelievability and dares the reader to believe . . . and then he pushes you off that ledge. Giggling.'' -- Word Riot
''The Shimmering Go-Between is a strange novel. Yet it's an intricate, even beautiful, strangeness that never loses sight of its characters' shared humanity. --Monkeybicycle
''Comedy, genuine feeling, and an authentic sense of what it's like to be alive in our time.'' -- Christian TeBordo, author of The Awful Possibilities
''Strangest, darkest, funniest ride I've taken in a very long time. Klein is mad, mad, mad and brilliant.'' -- Edward Carey, author of Observatory Mansions
''A phantasmagoric novel that will cover your eyes, spin you around a few times and throw you for a loop at every turn. An audacious work that will challenge you, baffle you, move you and shatter you all at once.'' -- Mélanie Francès, Goodreads --Reviews
About the Author Lee Klein is the author of Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox (Barrelhouse Books, 2014). A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Wonderfully weird By Jim Ruland The Shimmering Go-Between, the debut novel by Lee Klein, published by Atticus Books, takes its title from a quote by Vladimir Nabokov: "Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall tale, there is a shimmering go-between..." That's a telling quote, for it alerts the reader to the possibility that we are on the threshold of something fantastic.The story begins with Dolores, a precocious young girl who becomes pregnant while still in high school. There's just one problem: "She hadn't been penetrated. No one knew what to say. She swore she hadn't been with anyone. Hadn't even been near anyone. Had never even seen a real live penis."Dolores' story is regarded with the usual skepticism from her parents and family physician, but it keeps happening. Somehow Dolores seems to be conceiving without the assistance of a sperm donor. In other words, she can fertilize her own eggs.Traumatized by these experiences, Dolores avoids contact with boys until she enrolls in college. After a night of sex with Max, a fellow student with political ambitions, something really strange happens. His beard fills with nits that grow into "squirmy half-grains of buttered risotto" and turn into a "mini-Amazonian clan" of little women that stop growing when they reach a height of three centimeters.This bizarre development sets the stage for the rest of the book, which focuses on a love triangle between Dolores, Max and another bearded fellow: Dolores' co-worker Wilson, who possesses a disturbing secret that nests nicely with the theme of self-fertilization.Set during "the time the internet came into the lives of ordinary citizens," Klein's characters inhabit a bland, featureless landscape that has all the charm of a set from the TV show Friends. Even the author's excellent black-and-white illustrations seem stuck in time—such is their desire to give the reader a glimpse into the world the author has created.But in the weeds lurks another world, a world within Wilson that looks a bit like Colonial Williamsburg and is populated by—well, it's complicated. Suffice to say that these two storylines—the world within Wilson and the world without—intersect in dramatic fashion.Klein's mastery over these two narratives makes The Shimmering Go-Between a shocking and delightful debut that will beguile you at every turn.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Distortion of cause and effect, well written, enjoyable, bizarre By Richard Bon ** spoiler alert ** I can't help asking 'what does it all mean?' My answer is that I have no idea what it all means, and I don't very well expect to figure it out, so I'm just going to write down a bunch of disjointed thoughts that come to mind:Auto-pregnancy and the pill that stops it. A disease symbolic of the human tendency to procreate (sometimes unwittingly when we've had a bit too much to drink), ridiculous and surreal with its skipping of that intercourse part most people enjoy so much? The pill - it works whether there's sex involved or not.Miniature women growing on men's beards after sex. A side effect of the auto-pregnancy thing afflicted on the men who do have sex with an auto-impregnator (or is it auto-impregnatee, kinda both, I guess?). Suggestive of the effect we have on the world around us, even when we try our best to control everything we do with stuff like the pill?Auto-fellatio. One of those 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction' kinda things? Dolores' auto-impregnation, sans pleasure, is balanced by Wilson's self-pleasuring and the pleasure I suppose his web site subscribers get from watching him do it? Yeah. I don't know.Eating the miniature women who grow on beards. Telling of the current absurdity of human consumption? Like a guy says, "Hey, there are these miniature women growing on my beard after my girlfriend and I have sex. I think I'll eat them just because they are there, and I can," the same way a guy might get wasted and walk home past McDonald's and say, "Hey, they sell cheeseburgers at this place and even though I've consumed double the number of calories I needed today, I'm going to stop and eat 3 cheeseburgers. Because they are there, and I can." Or not, I don't know. But certainly the eating of the little women isn't a functional action, it's unnecessary, and when Wilson does it, he has no regard for any potentially negative side effects.The child inside of Wilson. As far as we know, men do not get pregnant. But we do so much bizarre stuff to our environment and to our bodies nowadays, who knows what's possible and what's not? When a woman auto-impregnates and miniature women are growing on beards post coitus, why shouldn't a child grow inside of a dude? Is this concept much different than some mutant fish being created because its parents swam through toxic waste we dumped in the Pacific?The miniature women wanting to have sex with the child inside Wilson. Sure, why not? Apparently he looks like Brad Pitt, so it's probably worth it for them when they immediately turn into a ball that explodes into a gas that smells like roses. Their existence didn't seem to be all that much fun anyway - they don't get those late night cheeseburger opportunities - so why not transform into floral scented vapor? Are the little women kinda like female sperm seeking a male egg (Brad Pitt), fertilizing and then being auto-aborted? This would make for a neat extension of whatever metaphors I'm trying (and probably failing) to understand.Question: who is the narrator? Wilson's conscience?The underground explosion in Trenton and subsequent pile of waste and refuse that becomes a monument of sorts - I thought that was a nice touch. I thought of it as an example of a disaster that could actually happen as a result of the toxicity of a lot of our real, everyday human living, nicely juxtaposed against the surreal and fabulist events surrounding Dolores and Wilson.That's all I've got, other than to mention that I dig Klein's writing style and the action kept me reading and all of it certainly made me wonder about what Klein may have been thinking about when he wrote it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. a fable set in daily life By D. S. Atkinson I loved this book. Loved it. The vividness and wildness of the worlds nested in worlds, the tangibility of the character's yearning, the laid back way the book quietly but earnestly goes about its business, there's just so much to love here. It's a fable set in daily life.
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