The Brothers Connolly, by Ted Prokash
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Napawaupee, Wisconsin is the hometown you all remember, where the hottest action going is high school football or statutory rape and booze is the salve for what Jesus can't heal . . ." The Connollys of Napawaupee are the quintessential small-town family. They are the "royals of a cast-off kingdom, curators of an inbred knowledge, the keepers of a dull flame . . . In The Brothers Connolly three generations of this proud, prosaic family will be defined by their aspirations, their vices and, finally, by tragedy.
The Brothers Connolly, by Ted Prokash- Amazon Sales Rank: #1394150 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-30
- Released on: 2015-03-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Ted Prokash published his first novel A Fool for Lesser Things in 2011. He is a founding member of the elusive art-rock combo Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones. He resides in Algoma, WI with his wife and three children.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The transition between the two places was easy and seamless By Amazon Customer I had just finished a reading stint in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, when I was introduced to Napawaupee, Wisconsin, via The Brothers Connolly. The transition between the two places was easy and seamless. I simply left the pervasive William Faulkner South for the Faulknerian North of Ted Prokash and The Brothers Connolly.Simply dropping the title The Brothers Connolly off your lips is bound to remind you of a namesake title, Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov from times distant. For those interested in drawing analogies and references between the two works, you will find fertile ground. Though Mr. Prokash doesn’t push the issue beyond the title, there are myriad similarities. Mr. Prokash has to be happy to be included with two of literature’s heavyweights, and he deserves to be.The setting for The Brothers Connolly is America’s small town, a town to be found everywhere and anywhere. Prokash’s characters are real, believable, and enduring - a testimony that life’s joys, travails, and shenanigans are everlastingly the same, except wrapped in a different ball of time and place. Prokash writes with a sharp artistic style that exposes an edge (“Tomcat’s eyes were like two diseased vaginas fitted with mystic black marbles.” – hard to argue with that, except to savor it.) He also writes with a heady vocabulary, something not often found these days.The novel is inspired by a literal “heart of darkness” around which the brothers gravitate. It is also a story of the ways, customs, and morays of the small town. Perhaps the advantage that the small town has over the city is that it allows the microscope of the artist a sharper vision.This novel will live much longer than the last page and belongs on everyone’s reading list; I highly recommend it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. TED PROKASH DOES IT AGAIN - By Tony Nesca I did not think that Ted Prokash could strike gold again after the excellent debut novel, "A Fool For lesser Things", but damn if he didn't pull it off. "The Brothers Connolly" is a generational tale about a small-town American family, it's also a coming home tale, it's also a story about vice, betrayal, and tragedy - it is swimming in layer after layer of sub-meanings and characters so real, so refined you will swear you have met them at some point or another in some small town American bar or another. As usual Prokash writes in that sharp-edged, intellectual,street corner gab, that always reminds me of F. Scott Fitzgerald or even Aldous Huxley at moments, but with a dash of Bukowski and rock and roll - try this on for example - "Belgie's bar was dark. At 9:15 on a Tuesday night this probably meant that George and Tom were keeping vigil by the scant light of the neon beer signs and the faint moon glow through the grimy windows." - do you see how the sentence drags you inescapably along word for word? The story is fast-paced, that much more impressive for a long book, and the handling of a large number of characters is impressive indeed invoking some of the Russian literature of the 19th century - Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc...Not for the faint-hearted, it could be seen as a dark story, but yet it does not give in to complete collapse and the characters and their lives rage on. This is a beautiful book - it is tragedy, it is love, it is happy/sad, but above all else, it is very, very real. They just don't write them like this anymore. A wild, roaring 5 out of 5 stars for Ted Prokash's second book, "The Brothers Connolly"
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Blew me away... By Geoff This is an impressive book. Highly literary. If you appreciate exceptionally written, character-centered fiction, you'll want to have this one in your library. It's a story about the Connolly family, soaked with alcohol, insecurity, resentment, uncomfortability, and conflict. It's dark, it's deep, and it's compelling. And no matter what kind of town or family you come from, the human emotion will resonate powerfully. The story begins with Jack an unsuccessful playwright, who decides to return to his provincial little hometown to deal with family matters. There's a scene later on that sticks in my mind so vividly, with Jack coming drunkenly undone under the scrutinizing eyes of a roomful of mounted deer heads. It's difficult to describe how jarring some of the scenes in this book are. There are metaphors in this book that I literally felt in my stomach. A little more about the writing. Prokash writes in this x-ray-close-omniscience which is not easy for a writer to pull off convincingly. When it succeeds, it makes the characters profoundly real. This book succeeds brilliantly. As a scribbler myself, I envy Ted Prokash. Read this book for the story, and read it for the incredibly artful writing. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
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