Fall

I got an advanced review copy of this from goodreads.com. It's ostensibly a boarding school story. Rich, popular & privileged Julius is dating Fall (short for Fallon) the prettiest girl in the boarding school. Noel, a misfit with violent tendencies, becomes his roommate & is thrilled to be accepted......more

I'm a huge fan of his first novel, Some Great Thing, for many reasons--stylistic fearlessness, the visceral pulse of the narrative, the two main characters who are inverse images of each other. Fall (for which I've been waiting for six years) doesn't disappoint. Like Some Great Thing, it's extraordi......more

Hmm, really wanted to love this book but alas it was a little too patchy and inconclusive to me..Fall (not Fall with the long A like synonym of autumn but Fall with a short A as in Fallon, a girls name) is the story of two roommates and their time in a prep school for boys. If this was the entire st......more

It sounds cliche, but author Colin McAdam had me at the first line, "Half an hour of lips and silk in the front and back and her cheeks are like peaches like peaches like peaches." I felt I didn't so much read this book as experience it, revel in it, run it through my fingers and inhale it. One cavea......more