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The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker
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How do I find a book? Can I borrow this item? In the main, Shuker excels at confining himself to Souse's point of view, and to allowing his insights about the self-destructive posing of adolescent masculinity to emerge obliquely through Souse's darkening language.
The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker
Occasionally, though, he can't let a line or an image get away, and his protagonist says things that sound unlikely. After the novel's opening party, Souse retreats to his parents house, and, while they're away, tortures the dog, masturbates on his father's chair until he bleeds, wets his bed, and fires a gun through the family television. But he also is able to notice that "Dad's got his weight on one foot and his hips cocked casually; his body forms the shape of a parenthesis behind and beyond Mum who stands, shoulders squared to me, her focus completely on me, with that almost smug air of certainty, of someone who knows their back is covered".
Even the way the alliteration develops throughout this sentence makes it seem unlikely to have emanated from Souse's consciousness. And then there's Anna, almost the only person besides his parents who still calls Souse "Richey. We find out in an epigraph that she has died, killing herself after the return of cancer. Throughout the novel, we read letters from her to Souse that remember a time when Souse's affective palette was less monochrome, and he spends a considerable amount of psychic energy denying that these emotions and this psychological flexibility are still available to him.
Finally, he ends up thinking, "Forgiveness is temporary and time is short and she is dead".
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Souse does speak in a compressed tone, but the economy and rhythm of this sentence sound too sophisticated for him. Beyond its evident interest in the desperate self-alienation that is one response to male adolescent crisis, The Lazy Boys does offer a recognizable, if bleak, portrait of college life, especially in its attachment to music. Kurt Cobain's death is probably the most significant world event in the novel, and almost the only moment of connection happens when somebody discovers a copy of "The Draize Train".
Souse and his friends are in college at time when New Zealand has just defunded higher education, shifting to a so-called "user-pays" system. The ramifications of this approach, including the way it re-introduces certain kinds of class anxieties at strange moments, are everywhere in the novel, though that would probably be clearer to a New Zealand readership. The Lazy Boys deserves a wide readership, especially among those interested in young people and the way they can, as Freud said of neurotics, "escape into illness.
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