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THE WORLD ReviewThis novel held me spellbound throughout the exquisitely crafted plot, the carefully built tension, and the cathartic climax. 'The World' juxtaposes startling poetic language with an intimate window into a teenage boy's psyche. I truly felt that I was on a coming-of-age journey with 'The Artist', the novel's extremely likable main character. I experienced the young man's daily triumphs, frustrations and the wonders of his first love.
Mr. Kearns fearlessly experiments with plot and language, dialog, and characterization. A natural storyteller, he creates a compelling personality for each of his characters through believable, flowing dialog and sensitive depictions of feelings and motivation.
This fascinating read is influenced by the Irish-American experience, ancient myth, vernacular expression and excerpts from music and film. The fact that Mr. Kearns can combine these diverse inspirations and make the novel pack the punch of a singular strong statement is a testiment to his vision and ability. Highly recommended!!!THE WORLD OverviewWhy didn't they know? He could see the darkness of their souls, the void that drove them to huddle together at all times He saw the souls, too, of all the other swim clubs that he had joined or visited over the years, clubs filled with equal measures of hypocrisy, deceit, and meanness, each one seeming to its members, as primitive societies did to theirs, to be all that there is, the whole world.Saturated with what he has learned of Classics and history, a 16-year-old boy reflects upon the flow of recent events in his own history: his discovering his Irish heritage, his loss of a job, his receiving an Artistic vocation, his traumatic experiences of unrequited love. These events become psychic cataclysms that destroy his traditional worldview and force him to create a new one. They also teach him what it means to become an Artist and a man. Exploiting imagery ranging from Greek mythology to video games and employing conventional and experimental techniques, The World is a passionate, multi-layered, poetic depiction of an artistic soul's maturation. Twenty years in the writing, The World is a work that should be read again and again.

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