The Boy Detective Fails [Paperback]

This is postmodern fiction with a head?and?a heart, addressing such depressing issues as suicide, death, loneliness, failure, anomie, and guilt with compassion, humor, and even whimsy. Menos best work yet; highly recommended. Mood is everything here, and Meno tunes it like a master . . . a full-tilt collision of wish-fulfillment and unrequited desires thats thrilling, yet almost unbearably sad. A radiantly creative masterpiece . . . Menos imaginative genius spins heartache into hope within this fanciful growing-up tale that glows like no other. The search for truth, love, and redemption is surprising and absorbing. Swaddled in melancholy and gentle humor, it builds in power as the clues pile up. At the bottom of this Pandoras box of mirthful absurdity, theres heartbreak and longing, eerie beauty and hope.