JULY, JULY, by Tim O'Brien.
But "July, July" shows up for its date with posterity wearing loafers without socks, with its shirttail hanging out.
He explained that "July, July!" was about a warehouse he used to live in, and listeners could follow the narrative thread from the mundane to the implausible.
Arachnid and such.The book I leave open, the wind blows it shut.In late April I make a schedule: Juneto July, July to August.
These days, even the television shows his characters surely watch collude in a culture of knowingness and irony far beyond the ken of "July, July". Cardboard stars just don't cut it anymore.
Most of the men in "July, July" are just as sketchily drawn -- their emotional outlook easily summed up in an adjective or two, their lives mechanically reduced to the sort of anecdotes recounted on afternoon talk shows.
But no author can completely escape the imprint of the week's horror, said Tim O'Brien, who is in the middle of a novel called "July, July," set, as is most of his work, in the Vietnam era.
The "Big Chill -esque reunion at the Chill -esquem O'Breunionlugubrious new novel, "July, July," is the occation, predicthely enough, for lots of maudlin midlife regrets and recenteratiofs, variously fond and biTim O'Brienes of the 1960's, and severalugubrious drug-inewced showdownoveld flirtations.
Though there are a few glimpses of the brilliance Mr. O'Brien displayed in his classic Vietnam fictions, "Going After Cacciato" and "The Things They Carried," "July, July" is, for the most part, an uninspired, flat-footed performance -- a clichéd compendium of midlife crises and complaints.
Two excellent articles may come out in April, and you might not see anything worth sending in July, July, or August.
Four seasons were defined: spring (March, April, May), summer (June July August), autumn (September, October, November), winter (December, January, February).
