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Pig Roast, by Bill Bukovsan
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A nine year-old's meditation on desire, caritas, and cowardice. Or maybe just the story of a really bad party.
Pig Roast, by Bill Bukovsan- Amazon Sales Rank: #1383231 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-13
- Released on: 2015-09-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Coming of Age By Arthur Walzer This book works on a number of levels. It is the story of a nine-year old boy, Billie, who in guilty compensation from his physician neighbor for accidentally breaking his arm with a too powerful kick of a soccer ball, accedes to Billie’s request to attend a church member only Labor Day pig roast. Billie had longingly watched the pig roast in previous years; now he was to participate and experience the fulfillment of his greatest hope. A young reader could easily identify with Billie’s attraction to the romance of the fire, the spit, and the rotating pig. But before, during, and after the roast Billie’s pleasure is significantly attenuated and his life complicated by the pending divorce of the parents of a friend and his gradual awareness of that his neighbor-doctor-host has sought respite from a perpetually unhappy wife in flirtation with his secretary. By the end of this coming-of age novella, Billie returns home a changed boy, acknowledged in his insistence that his mother provide him a robe when he ascends from his bath in her presence. . All this is set in summer-ending picnic on that most archetypal of transitional moments in school-age child’s life, Labor Day, before a roasting pig whose fat “makes a sound like a rattlesnake” as it hits the fire below.But the novella is more than “pre-teen fiction.” The plot pits the joy-killing conformity and devotion to propriety of its women characters against a male restlessness that husbands cannot or will not articulate but do act upon. The children, both Billie and the doctor’s daughter, Dolly, attempt to manage the fall out of dysfunctional married couples without taking sides.Although written in the third person, the perspective is that of the nine-year old Billie, captured in paratactic style that strings ideas together in longish compound sentences that mimic a nine-year old’s inability to see how the separate moments he experiences relate to each other.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Delectable Feast! Rewarding on Many Levels. By Benjamin Chambers Bill Bukovsan's *Pig Roast* is a gem of a literary novella. (Maybe I should use a BBQ metaphor, but we'll go with jewelry.) Using tight third-person point of view, the piece tells the story of Billy, a 10-year-old who confronts for the first time some difficult conundrums of life: is it possible to love someone without liking them? Is it possible your "mean" adult neighbor is only mean because she's in great pain emotionally and is trying desperately to maintain a vestige of control? Why is it you feel so uncomfortable when you see your "nice" neighbor hugging his young daughter? Is everything in life better anticipated than experienced -- are letdown and disappointment inevitable? And how do you get your broken arm to stop itching under that cast?The plot is straightforward: Billy's neighbors, the Valentines, host an annual pig roast, but only invite people they know from church -- a rank outrage, Billy has always felt. This year, though, Billy worms an invite to the pig roast out of the doctor. When it comes, the event itself is awkward and strange for Billy, who knows almost no one there. Dr. Valentine and his wife have a confrontation over his decision to invite his attractive young assistant to the roast, and Dr. Valentine refuses to uninvite her. But what appears to be an affair turns out to be something else, and Billy has another lesson in the ambiguities of adult relations. Just as Billy is revolted by the roast pig he is finally served, after spending years looking forward to eating it, so he finds that life in general is not what those around him were hoping for. Indeed, the only two people who seem to truly want to be together are wildly wrong for each other --- morally out of bounds, if not out of reach.All this is executed in smooth prose, as Bukovsan displays an unerring instinct for telling detail and a young boy's perspective. There's even a nod to John Cheever's "The Swimmer" in the closing pages, as the last day of summer abruptly turns to a chilly fall, echoing the end of Billy's childhood and intimating the bleaker realities of adulthood that lie ahead for him.Highly recommended.
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