Atlantis 1999
Edward Morris
Reviewed by Ann
Marie Chalmers
Blurb
from publisher:
‘Imagine Steinbeck possessed by the
spirits of T. S. Eliot and William Faulkner living in San Francisco in
1999. Now give him a pen Morris has written The Grapes of Wrath for a
new
generation. This slipstream beat poem in prose chronicles the lives of
a young
couple starting out in the wrong place, at the wrong time, without
enough
money. Reading it is like riding
Atlantis back into the sea.’
This memoir is written in a diary form
and it
is hard to know how to describe it as a whole work.
It follows a young couple who are just
starting out together and need all they can get to make it through life
with a
baby on the way. Descriptive and
slightly poetic this is a short read which many readers could relate to
in a
lot of different ways and levels.
Reading a diary of anyone you don’t know is
hard enough to follow and this novella is just like reading into the
lives of
people you don’t know and don’t care about.
It is slightly surreal and at times interesting but all in all I
as a
reviewer wonder who would enjoy this.
Not at all my cup of tea I am sure there was a point to this
book but it
didn’t grab me enough that I wanted to make any sense of it.
Edward Morris is also the writer of ‘The
Arkadia Trilogy’ a fantasy/paranormal series with 2 books already
released
‘Blood of Eden’ and ‘O Fortuna’.