The Paradise Motel

I just finished reading this in the 1993 omnibus version of Inspecting the Vaults, which includes McCormack's 1987 short story collection (Inspecting the Vaults) and this novel. But I'm reviewing it here considering I haven't read the stories yet, and wanted to get my thoughts down while it was stil......more

Esther, Amos, Rachel and Zachary: Four young brothers and sisters each sharing a hideous and tortures past - A weak, dying man tells this macabre and unbelievable story, the story of the Mackenzie children as related by Zachary Mackenzie who he met in Patagonia years earlier, to his impressionable g......more

This book gave me a lot! Perhaps every book one reads is dependent on ones situation and the Zeitgeist. The power of story telling, how it entertains and stimulates ones own creative juices through evocative passages in a world not quite here! Stirring stuff but not for conventional readers. top ma......more