Lighting the World, by Merle Drown
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Lighting the World, by Merle Drown
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Wade Rule decides to escape his dominating mother by taking it upon himself to go to Vermont to care for his wheelchair-bound uncle who, Wade's father tells him, has recently lost his girlfriend to a "man whose legs work." Wade reveals his dream to a fellow high school student, Maria, who tells him, "I'd run off to Vermont before I'd live with my father." Wade then knows he'll have to hurry because Maria is planning to have herself declared a ward of the state within a week. She has given Wade the confidence to get them both to a better home; however, Wade's confidence is misplaced, and when he shows up at school with a shotgun to fetch Maria, things quickly go horribly wrong.
Lighting the World, by Merle Drown- Amazon Sales Rank: #1395485 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-16
- Released on: 2015-03-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author A native of Northern New England, Merle Drown has written stories, essays, plays, reviews, and two novels, Plowing Up a Snake and The Suburbs of Heaven. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire Arts Council and teaches in Southern New Hampshire University's M.F.A. program. The father of three sons, he lives with his wife Teresa Ceballos in Concord, New Hampshire, and Toronto
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Getting What's Really Going On By George Kelly Lighting The World, Merle Drown's latest novel is in keeping with a central theme that appears in all of his work--the lives of "the other half," the downtrodden, the exploited, and their desperate struggle to simply survive. Wade Rule's world is as harsh as a New Hampshire Winter. His home is barren of love, the school that his parents moved him to is large, impersonal, and sharply divided between the privileged, and the poor. The city he lives in is restricting him from the only life he has known. When he lived in Newfound, a miniscule town dwarfed by the still untamed wilderness around it, he could survive, and he could cope. Wade is a hunter; intelligent, resourceful, and adept in his own environment, In the city though he is dying, as slow a death as any animal he may have caught in a trap back home. Drown's sensitive portrait of Wade, and our sympathy for him, is heightened as we listen to his thoughts, and watch him fall in love with a kindred spirit--a young girl named Maria--someone who has her own set of horrors to deal with. Both bond and in their desire to hatch a "way out" of the misery, we follow along and want them to succeed. After he has us rooting for these two truly beautiful kids, Drown accelerates well beyond the speed limit, coupling stark image upon image until circumstances begin to compound and tumble over each other to an inevitability that he has laid groundwork for from the beginning.It's easy to draw conclusions about sensational news that presents only hard and naked facts. It's another matter entirely, to make sense out of something that doesn't seem to make any sense at all. Lighting The World gives us an inside look at the logic behind something illogical. It's a compelling piece of writing--a piece of fiction drawn from fact, that slices deep into the flesh to expose the underside of "the other half."
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Riveting "Northern Gothic" By John V Merle Drown's tragic triumph Lighting The World is a fictionalized account of a real-life school shooting in Concord, New Hampshire. Through a close third-person narrative, Drown inserts readers in the tortured and complicated mind of Wade Rule.Drown's prose and characterizations embody the best elements of Southern Gothic with a Northern sensibility. Rule's obsession with Maria recalls Faulkner's Benjy and Caddy in The Sound and the Fury, while the peripheral characters, as viewed through Wade's eyes, harken to the grotesques of Flannery O'Connor.Merle Drown provides unique insight into a small-town tragedy. His storytelling never asks the reader to sympathize with or forgive Wade, although at times they may feel compelled to do so. There is something universal in Wade's struggles that everyone can identify with in some sense or another. Lighting The World is a compelling novel that you will be unable to put down. Or forget.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Read it, then pass it on By R.W.W. Greene I just now finished Merle Drown’s “Lighting the World,” and the pages have left me aching. I’ve known too many boys like his protaginist Wade Rule, angry sad boys who believed they only had one chance to matter … and had to make that chance work in spite of all consequences.“Lighting the World” is Drown’s attempt to shed light on a real-life tragedy, a school shooting in Concord, N.H. a month before that same school lost a favorite teacher in the space-shuttle Challenger disaster. Lost in the crowd well before he died, the real boy behind Wade Rule was buried even further in the school’s collective mind as it grieved the hero teacher.Drown’s powerful, almost tactile prose successfully exhumes him, putting a face on the boy that, while fictional, fits. Wade breathes and bleeds and aches with love felt and wanted. More than anything else, though, Wade wants to be needed, to matter.Wade’s prized possession is the shotgun he used to take his first deer, an action that Wade believes opened the door to manhood, When he finds himself barred from stepping through that door -- by school, by his parents -- he turns to the gun again, and when your only tool is a gun, every problem starts to look like something to shoot.Wade is a lost boy, representative I think, of the many lost children out there. The ones who join gangs, or ISIS, or father illegitimate children, or join the military (likely the healthiest of these options), thinking it’s the only way they will ever count. Unlike those nameless millions, though, Wade Rule -- thanks to author Drown -- has a face we can see. Read this book then pass it to your sons.
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