Reviews for LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl

The average rating for LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-06 00:00:00 ROB THOMAS David Huddle's work are hidden gems waiting to be found. I wish this amazing writer had more exposure. This novel is very Michael Ondajaateish- fragmented with time and space lingering about in the narrative. Suzanne Nelson is a talented professor who is an expert in La Tour. In order to escape thinking about her marriage with Jack about to end, she throws herself with gusto an imagined interaction with La Tour and the Wolf Girl, Vivienne, his muse. As she is enveloped deeper into this world, Jack has an affair with the buxom and sexy Elly, also another professor at the University of Vermont. What makes this novel a delight is the human interactions that Suzanne and Jack have with one another, juxtaposed with the friendship of Vivenne and La Tour in the past.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-04-15 00:00:00 Sophie Calze To judge by the author bio, Huddle is one of those writers -- of poetry and essays as well as fiction -- upon whom the literary establishment smiles. This is far from necessarily a recommendation, and indeed about fifteen or twenty pages into this novel I was ready to throw it at the wall on the grounds of Stark Pretentiousness Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. Luckily there wasn't a wall to hand and I persevered, because I ended up enjoying the book really quite a lot. Prissy, fortyish Vermont art history prof Suzanne and her spindoctoring businessman husband Jack are not so much an odd couple as a couple whose ways started diverging in two incompatible directions fairly soon after they married. Now their marriage is clearly falling apart; that Jack finds solace in boffing the earthy Elly whenever he can is a symptom of this rather than, as both he and especially Suzanne believe, a cause. Habitually reserved, Suzanne escapes the turmoil of her personal life by constructing a fantasy about the 17th-century French painter Georges de la Tour; in this extended daydream, de la Tour discovers that Vivienne, the village teenager he has taken on as his new model, has a patch of wolflike hair on the back of her shoulder of which she is (improbably) completely unaware. What Huddle has constructed with this novel is a sort of rope of stories, and I'd guess it was Story that was really his preoccupation when he was writing it. Whatever, once he'd hooked me I stayed hooked; and by the final page I discovered that Suzanne was a far more interesting person than I'd earlier believed. Beware of those first fifteen or twenty pages, though.