The Silver
Linings Playbook »By Matthew
Quick
This
book will make you happy, though, because of the way it is written. Most of the
chapter titles will make you laugh in a different way than the next. Mr.
Quick's apt use of detail, allusions, and brilliant comparisons bring the story
to life. That a chapter should be called "Like he was Yoda and I was Luke Skywalker
training on Dagobah" is a very precious thing. Meanwhile periodic
interludes such as advice from Pat's 'black friend Danny', and even the whole
introduction of the death of Veterans Stadium as a new thing, bring bits of
humor just when the story may seem to be becoming sad. The author has an eye
for quirks and intricacies of language and a gift for conveying them in a
readable yet still emotional and romantic manner. More than just the ease of
identifying with Pat, Mr. Quick's simple, declarative prose, highlighted by
brief, nostalgic-filled, almost Hemingway-like sentences, reels in the reader
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