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The Urban Space Man |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Donald Secreast |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,594 Words, 16,485 Characters |
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MIRACLE GIRL
Keith Scribner
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003
257 pp., $23.95
In the opening chapters of Miracle Girl, his second novel, Keith Scribner employs the same narrative facility that made his first novel, The Goodlife, such a compelling read. With a notably smooth and efficient pace, he sets into motion the three major components that develop the plot of the novel. While the main character, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quinn, finds himself involved in a fraying relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Rita, he also faces being shafted by an unscrupulous real estate developer, Bobby Jensen. Most important, Quinn finds himself dragged into a religious controversy involving a 30-year-old deaf girl--Sue Phong--that threatens the credibility of Hudson City's Catholic church and the st...
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...--and snugly constructed on the narrative principle of literary consciousness as a self-proliferating, motion-initiated progression of overlapping spaces, Miracle Girl, surprisingly, fails to achieve its final and most important sense of space, that movement into radiance. Luminosity could have been part of this novel if Scribner would have granted just a few more square feet to the spiritual.
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