Studies in Short Fiction, September 22nd, 1997
ACID by Edward Falco. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. vii + 193 pages. $25 cloth; $14.95 paper.
I almost never admire the characters in Acid, but I care about them. Edward Falco's characterization is complex and believable, so that his parents are easy to sympathize with, however wrong they are, and the children are pitiable as we watch them prepare to self-destruct. The typical Falco character faces a choice between a life on the fringe and a life of conventionality, and we want the choice to matter, even as the evidence mounts that it may not.
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