Apology for Big Rod, by Charles Holdefer
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Apology for Big Rod, by Charles Holdefer
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Rod Gass is accused of being a criminal. He’s failed at careers that people didn’t know existed. Now a custodian at the Van Allen School of Mortuary Science, he is enjoying himself immensely. His niece, Judy, wants to know why. She is the only one ready to unveil this man, and to challenge him on his own terms. Rich in humor and with an acute sense of the absurdities of everyday life, Apology for Big Rod is an American success story of an altogether different sort.
Apology for Big Rod, by Charles Holdefer- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
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From Kirkus Reviews A whimsical first novel celebrates its reprobate hero's eccentricities as he drifts from job to job, ducks parental responsibilities, and even steals from the dead. Judy Gass decided she adored her uncle on the day he dug up her father's lawn in order to present her with a supposedly bona fide dinosaur bone--and she continued to love him for the same mix of charm and destructiveness until the day he died. Using this postmortem ``apology'' to recount and account for his many misdeeds, the adult Judy recalls how carefree Uncle Rod always seemed compared to her own plodding, hard-working dad. A shy, lonely child, Roderick Gass was profoundly affected by his near- death experience as a soldier during WW II--an experience that convinced him life was too short to spend time punching the clock at a dead-end job. Instead, as his relatives shake their heads over his lost potential (he could have been a great sports announcer!), Rod returns to Seymour, Illinois, to drift cheerfully from one temporary career to another--reinventing himself as a bantamweight boxer, a Fuller Brush salesman, a purveyor of color TV converters, and finally a part-time janitor at the Van Allen School of Mortuary Science--carrying on a series of love affairs, gambling schemes, and shadier business deals on the side. As Rod and his brother age, it appears for a while that Rod may come out the winner, retaining his youthful zest long after Judy's dad resigns himself to a life of boredom--but Rod's house of cards finally collapses when he's caught red-handed stealing a necklace off a corpse at the mortuary. Revealed as a thief, an absentee dad (from a failed alliance in Florida), and an unapologetic fraud, Uncle Rod dies in prison, with only his niece Judy to sing his praises. Charming but slight, like its hero. Still, Holdefer's blithe humor hints at more substantial entertainment to come. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Quirky and unpredictable By A Customer This is a funny little novel and a fast read but stops maybe too abruptly to make things clear. The story is entertaining and full of surprises, especially Big Rod's sale of chocolate Jesuses!!! It is also a little strange (and the only book I've seen like that) when it seems to talk about (mainly joke about) post-structuralism & feminism but in non-academic way. Like it claims on the back cover the language is colloquial. What makes me hold back the 5th review star is that the author seems to make fun of all sides without taking one on his own, to have his cake and eat it too. If it is ONLY an an apology for "Big Rod" that is sort of offensive. If the book had been longer maybe this would have been clearer. Still it is a fun book.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A great promise of things to come By E. B. Anderson I purchased this book because I am taking a course on "Finishing Your Novel" at the Iowa Summer Writers Festival and Charles Holdefer will be the course's instructor. My purpose for reading this book was admittedly egocentric...I wanted to see whether I would feel this man was qualified to teach this class. Well, let me assure you that he is and I have been sufficiently humbled. Holdefer's wit and the obvious care he's taken in constructing his characters will burn this novel into the reader's minds long after the final page has been turned.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Excellant snapshot of life By A. Oswald (jhawks@netins.net) I purchased for our library and read this book when Charles e-mailed my library and let us know that he was an Iowan and would we be interested in a book by an Iowa author. I enjoyed the book so much that I borrowed through inter-library loan his college disertation (a short novel). I am still waiting for his next novel which will hopefully have some of the characters from the disertation. I corresponded with Charles a couple times through e-mail. He didn't say when his next novel would be out. So we must wait.
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