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de Colin McAdam (Author)
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The “Fall” in the title of this finely crafted thriller is Fallon DeStindt, a student at an exclusive Ottawa-area boarding school who mysteriously disappears halfway through the book. Two people who seem to be implicated are her boyfriend Julius, son of the American ambassador, and Julius’s roommate Noel, son of Canada’s Consul General to Australia. (Author Colin McAdam is himself the son of a diplomat and attended Ottawa’s Ashbury College, so he knows the milieu.) The presentation is similar to that in McAdam’s acclaimed debut Some Great Thing, shuttling skillfully between different points of view and making heavy use of stream-of-consciousness in the Julius sections. The immediacy of this approach suits Julius’s personality; he is an unreflective, somewhat naive bundle of hormones, living only in the moment and head-over-heels in love with Fall. The tone of political allegory takes a turn for the psychosexual when Julius meets Noel, a creepy closet case who likes to lift weights and read Thomas Hobbes. Noel tells his own side of the story looking back on the events from a mature perspective.  There is a bit of a B-movie flavour to all of this, but the writing is fresh and alert throughout, allowing McAdam to express the random poetry of perception (“words chasing thoughts”) while recreating the claustrophobic atmosphere of the boarding school and its hermetic world of boredom, privilege, and “enforced infantilization.” The plot is also deftly handled, from the puzzle-without-a-solution at its centre to the playful asides and paranoid leitmotifs. Bald men start to seem particularly sinister.  The only real negative is the amount of attention devoted to scenes of heavy petting and puppy love between gormless Julius and Fall. Young lovers can be annoying enough when passed on the street; the amount of close exposure here – including bumping teeth and staring deep, deep into one another’s eyes – is too much, especially given the stylistic extremes these sections go to. (Sex, for example, is rendered as “Phoo. Ooo. Aah. Mm. Sss. Pha. Sh. Ga. Ga. Gah,” etc.) Add to this the truism that the villain in a thriller is always more interesting than the beautiful people, and the love story seems even weaker. This is, however, a minor point that does little to diminish what is a smart and well-paced literary page-turner. --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.

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A place of pressure and contradictions, St. Ebury is an exclusive boarding school for the children of Canada's elite, where boys must act as men while navigating their adolescence, a mixed school with only a handful of girls. Fall is the most beautiful. Noel, a clever, ghostly loner, is certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else, she is drawn to Julius, the confident and magnetic son of the American ambassador to Canada. At the beginning of their final year, the two boys room together and while Julius grows physically closer to Fall, Noel's boisterous enthusiasm shades into something darker. A disturbing and unforgettable story of guilt, memory, and confused identity, Colin McAdam's second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation, and searing ambition.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 "Everything will work out for you", Sep 9 2009
Par Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Fall (Hardcover)
Focusing on St. Ebury a small and exclusive private school in the town of Sutton, Canada examines the lives of two friends, particularly the introverted Noel, whose father is a diplomat stationed in Australia and Julius, a jocular personality, popular with the girls and who has come to the school from the United Sates. As the boys share a room together, Noel becomes obsessed with Julius and his larrikin ways, even their new friends seem Chuck and Ant seem to follow Julius, their putative leader, as Julius begins to cross the line, playing rebellious jokes on the other students, drinking and partying while constantly wrestling with blinding hangovers. Julius is the more extravert but he possesses more of a conventional nature than the far more reserved Noel. Still it doesn't take long for the two to form a strong friendship lifting weights together and sharing intimacies about their lives deep into the night as Julius lies on the top bunk-bed while Noel surrenders to the bottom. All too soon their room becomes a refuge created by Julius, a place where for a while, Noel could be himself more than anywhere else in the world.

This is Noel's "time of evolution" and a Christmas trip to Australia firmly cements his growth as an independent spirit as a man. Ensconced in his parents palatial residence, it is the heat and ash of the Sydney bushfires that create some sort of reaction on him, a catalyst like constant lightening. When he falls into a friendship with Meg, a local girl, whom he never hears from again, he gains strength from that summer, laboring in "the chill of things being deliberately ignored." Back in Canada Noel sees Julius as ever more a confidante and a protector. What is so appealing to him about Julius is his strange oblivious to the world, which somehow draws the world to him. Content to let things happen at calm pace, but being privy to his secrets, Noel is there in that private space with him reveling in the feelings of friendship and roommates who shower together even as they become "secret sharers, a united front against the troubles of the world."

Julius loves the dark-haired beauty named Fallon, "Fall" But Noel also has eyes for Fall, which soon transforms into a hungry curiosity and Noel soon wants to be absorbed and transformed in her mind into something calm. Julius's casual girlfriend, almost jealous of Julius because his easy sexual confidence he's the one who is most likely to get what he wants. After talking to her for the first time, Noel becomes somewhat emboldened and is more at ease with showing her who he is. Noel sees the way she flirts with other guys. Her manner and her openness, her willingness to be with other guys. Julius clearly loved Fall, yet much of the drama comes from Noel's gradual hints of annoyance that Julius could not possibly know love when love is what he felt for her.

In short sentences, in a stream-of-consciousness style McAdam revels in Julius's crass intimacies he could never bear and ever quite believe. Then Fall - who throughout remains an elusive and mysterious figure - goes missing. Has she moved to New York, gone away with her mother, or perhaps eloped with a secret boyfriend? While Noel steadily becomes obsessed with all of the evasion and avenues of escape, a search party is organized by the community and the police where it was assumed that if Fall had been abducted there might be local clues - an earring resting in the snow by the road.

McAdam layers his drama with unanswered questions, the layers of ambiguity cloaking the lives of Noel and Julius, both becoming suspects in her disappearance. Certainly Julius wants to follow her to some uncharted place in the world. Although the novel seethes with an instinctual tension reminiscent of Donna Tart's Secret History, there's not much to like here. Julius and Noel just aren't that compelling, more irritating than likable. While Noel thinks of himself as detached and bookish, a sort of precociously wise fringe-dweller who could be save from the world though cunning and evasion, Julius remains the "he man" getting off on antisocial behavior; he's indiscreet, but basically harmless, if profoundly stupid and completely unaware of the particular malice that seems to be germinating in Noel. Neither character is particularly memorable or likable - even their friends Ant and Chuck are blank slates, coming across merely ciphers for all of Julius's tiresome juvenile antics. Other characters move through the narrative: Fall's wealthy, self-absorbed mother and then William, Julius's chauffeur who lends his car to Julius and who may hold the key to Fall's disappearance. Yet most of what happens in this novel is shrouded in ambiguity and haziness. McAdam's style is sometimes elegant and evocative - the stifling Sydney summer is brilliantly portrayed and beautifully juxtaposed with the hard cold winters of Canada, fully intuiting Noel's inner angst and Julius's insecurities. Throughout, Noel seems intent to be a passive aggressor more concerned with his reputation with the school authorities and the police until his final devastating confrontation with Julius where the friendship faces its ultimately and is physically and emotionally buried for all time. Mike Leonard September 09.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Fall by Colin McAdam, Janv. 11 2010
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The worst book I've read thus far. While there has to be some semblance of a plot somewhere, I was unable to obtain focus. The entire story is twisted, the vulgarity throughout is, of course, most distasteful and truly unnecessary. I would not recommend this book. It's quite sad that most Canadian writers simply 'do not have what it takes'.
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