Sunset House 1968...finally

Finally getting around to scanning this and posting it to Flickr.

The Book Of Ralph

The Book Of Ralph John McNally

Ralph is divided into three sections, and the first two are engaging enough. McNally has crafted an engaging, fictionalized memoir. You can skip around freely anywhere in the first two sections of the book, grazing at an entertaining buffet of Sedaris-style tableaux of growing up working-class in South Chicago in the late 1970s.

The final act takes place in 2001, and involves a reunion wiith the eponymous Ralph, some goofy crime, and some redemption of the narrators' misspent life. This is all about as convincing as a James Bond movie, and does not serve the book at all.