{"id":484,"date":"2007-07-08T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=484"},"modified":"2015-07-12T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:35:54","slug":"fiction_the_int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/fiction_the_int.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: “The Interloper” by Antoine Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sort of an odd duck. I don’t think it was ALL due to me just having seen “Evening”<\/A> before I started reading this, but the time it takes place in felt confused. It FEELS like it’s the ’50s or ’60s, very formal, the wife part of a “society” family, the way the murder took place, the writing of letters, the lingering on of CJ’s spirit: all felt very “old,” belonging to the time of Capote and “In Cold Blood.” <\/p>\n

But then there are references to snowboarding, and photo shop and Mailboxes, etc. = so it’s supposed to be contemporary. I never really got over this tonal imbalance and really felt much of the plot and the characters would have worked better in THAT time rather than THIS one.<\/p>\n

Did enjoy the epistolary drama, the lead’s plan to break the murderer’s heart. The ending reminded me of a very specific part of “Evening,” but I don’t want to give anything away. If you’ve seen that<\/A> and read this, shoot me an email (link below “Say What”?), I’d love to know if anyone else noticed this particular resonance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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