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The Great Perhaps

Joe Meno

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Original Title:	The Great Perhaps
ISBN:	0393304566 (ISBN13: 9780393304565)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=15617

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“This ambitious, adventurous writer... recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune

Jonathan, a paleontologist, is searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist, cannot explain her failing experiment; their daughter Amelia is a disappointed teenage revolutionary; her younger sister, Thisbe, is on a frustrated search for God; and their grandfather, Henry, wants to disappear, limiting himself to eleven words a day, then ten, then nine - one less each day until he will speak no more. Each fears uncertainty and the possibilities that accompany it. When Jonathan and Madeline suddenly decide to separate, this nuclear family is split and forced to confront its own cowardice, finally coming to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.

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Title	:	The Great Perhaps
Author	:	Joe Meno
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 12th 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Adult Fiction. Family. Contemporary

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I imagine those people who don't like this book, or maybe don't like Joe Meno, aren't fans of Wes Anderson either. I suppose that isn't exactly fair to Meno. He doesn't dance around in a quirky but very real alternate reality. His characters are kind of quirky, one is afraid of clouds; one is trying to erase himself by speaking one fewer word a day. But he doesn't use his quirky characters for a mad-cap, laugh-a-minute riot. His quirks instead somehow heighten the flaws and the sadness in them.

Relentless and wonderful. That sums it up. "Who is right? Or does it matter? Is anything more important than finding your own slice of happiness?" Yes, I'm quoting myself. This was a great book filled to the brim with the brutal reality that life doesn't always work out how you want. But even so, it isn't always so bad. -Matthew.

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)So before anything else, let's acknowledge that I have a complicated relationship with the work of Chicago wunderkind Joe Meno; I rather disliked his literary debut, for example, the popular punk-rock coming-of-age tale Hairstyles of the Damned (prompting not exactly hateful letters from his

Let me preface this review by saying I'm a huge fan of Joe Meno and I think it's admirable that one author can write so many different kinds of books, but this one just wasn't the cheese or the bees knees for me.Of course there were parts of the story that I enjoyed immensely and they primarily reside in the characterizations of Thisbe, Amilea and Henry (Thisbe and Amilea's Grandfather). I also enjoyed the story line of a family in crisis and how it affected everyone in his or her own way. Those

I picked up The Great Perhaps purely because it was the next book on my reading list to come up at the local library, but truth be told, I was glad to read some Joe Meno. As current authors go, hes among my top choices not only for a quirky style but because hes so honest in his writing. Even just reading the jacket information, I sort of knew what I was going to get out of this book. Meno does not exactly diverge wildly from his style in any of his writing, but Im okay with that. People are

I love Joe Meno, and honestly think he is one of the best in fiction right now, but this book was awful. It feels instantly dated, but worse, it's derivative. It reads like bad a Wes Anderson movie (aren't they all though?).

Reading this book was a way for me to see that so many of the braveries of my life could so easily be seen as cowardices. Still, this revelation came in a warm light with the knowledge that there is still time to change without becoming too much of a different person than what I have built upon for so long. The lessons and realizations of this book came so gently.As for the book itself, I enjoyed it greatly, obviously. It was well-written. The characters were very much in the round and adaptive.