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In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard ...
This slick yet affecting novel depicts the manically self-absorbed days and nights of "Dakota Fanning" and "Haley Joel Osment." That the two share names with famous child stars, and that the title references a celebrated novelist, indicates our specific moment in time, but otherwise this is not a book "about" either the actors or the author. Born in 1983, Lin (Shoplifting from American Apparel) portrays a generation unable to engage and left lost, lonely, and dangerously obsessive as a result. Gmail chat and text message appear in heavy rotation, as the young lovers become more and more incapable of anything beyond their melancholic fixation with each other. The prose is rhythmic and lean, but strangely captivating, ultimately serving to echo the lack of interest the characters seem to have in anything other than themselves. Following them proves disconcerting and exhausting, especially as nothing keeps happening. Lin's sensibility is hip and ironic, but also feels ominously clairvoyant. As the author himself has become something of an icon to the very generation he portrays, one gets the sense that the disaffected youth are in on something the rest of us can only read about; given how bleak that world appears, reading about it feels relentless enough.
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Michael Mcdowell
reviewed Richard Yates on January 19, 2012
Richard Yates
Toby had read Shoplifting from American Apparel and absolutely loved. He went to Planet Books to find more novels from Tao Lin and they didn't have any. He searched amazon.co.uk and ordered two more novels from Tao Lin. He said to Leah via iMessage "they aren't going to ship until January 23rd. That's crap." Leah replied on iMessage "that is crap, Shoplifting from American Apparel was excellent, I hope the others are good."
Richard Yates arrived in the mail 10 days before amazon.co.uk said they would ship it to Toby and Leah. Toby said to Leah's face "excellent! I can't wait to read Richard Yates." On January 20th Toby decided that he would read Richard Yates in two books time. On January 22nd he finished Foundation and started to read Ricahrd Yates. He had high expectations.
Toby read 60 pages before having homemade vegan lasagne with Leah and trying to watch a Hollywood mumblecore movie. "This movie isn't very good, I'm switching it off." Toby mumbled to Leah. "It was a lot better than I expected but that's not saying much" replied Leah.
Toby and Leah went to bed. Leah went to sleep and Toby thought he'd just read a few more pages of Richard Yates before going to sleep. Toby read until he got to the index and his face felt sad because Richard Yates whilst written in the same style as Stealing From American Apparel just didn't make his face happy and smiley.
Toby considered the great dialogue and how he too wants to vomit when he thinks about Bono. Toby thought about how awful and genuine Dakota Fanning and Hayley Joel Osment were and not simple caricatures or anything like that. Toby thought about the constant misery inflicted by these two people on each other and wondered how two people could stand to be alive when they are so totally and completely insecure about everything. Then he remembered that his head hurt from all of the depressing behaviour and wished he could take back having read this book to allow himself the pleasure of reflecting warmly on the writing style of Tao Lin and the joy he felt on discovering Shoplifting From American Apparel without quantifying it as "a million times more enjoyable than his other more famous book, Richard Yates."
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