{"id":528,"date":"2009-09-15T02:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/09\/15\/my-review-of-the-latest-graham-joyce-novel\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:25","slug":"my-review-of-the-latest-graham-joyce-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/09\/15\/my-review-of-the-latest-graham-joyce-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of the latest Graham Joyce novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the most recent San Antonio Current<\/span>, I reviewed<\/a> Graham Joyce’s latest novel How to Make Friends With Demons<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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William Heaney, head of the the UK\u2019s National Organisation for Youth Advocacy, leads a troubled life. His wife left him for a celebrity pastry chef, his teenage son hates him, and his oldest daughter has moved back in with him \u2014 and brought along her boyfriend. Heaney can also see demons. In his latest novel, How to Make Friends With Demons<\/span>, Graham Joyce brings these entities to vivid life for his readers, too.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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According to Heaney, common demons include the \u201cmessy intellectuality\u201d manifested in compulsive footnoting, the \u201ccollecting demon,\u201d and demons that feed on various emotional ailments. Alcohol is not one of them, but rather \u201ca series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation. The fact that it is highly addictive or that it can drive men or women to extreme and destructive behavior does not make it a demon.\u201d Heaney, incidentally, spends large portions of the novel in pubs, often inebriated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Leaping forward and backward through time, Joyce expertly weaves a cohesive novel that essentially chronicles a mid-life crisis. The book successfully explores a range of emotional states with a heady combination of horror, humor, and wonder, while maintaining its center on the kindhearted, confused, and at times delusional narrator Heaney.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\nI previously blogged<\/a> about How to Make Friends With Demons<\/span> back in July.<\/p>\n

\nRead the entire review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the most recent San Antonio Current, I reviewed Graham Joyce’s latest novel How to Make Friends With Demons. Quote: William Heaney, head of the the UK\u2019s National Organisation for Youth Advocacy, leads a troubled life. His wife left him … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n