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Nothing Lost
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781400035014
ISBN: 1400035015
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: May 17, 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland.” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics. An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives. In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dunne orchestrated these elements into a symphony of American violence, chicanery, and sadness.In the aftermath of Edgar Parlance’s killing, the small prairie town of Regent becomes a destination for everyone from a sociopathic teenaged supermodel to an enigmatic attorney with secret familial links to the worlds of Hollywood and organized crime. Out of their manifold convergences, their jockeying for power, publicity or love, Nothing Lost creates a drama of magnificent scope and acidity.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Sparkling in the details
Nothing Lost contains all the right elements: a good plot, good characters, weighty themes, and fine sentence-by-sentence writing. Unfortunately, these elements do not coalesce into an excellent novel. The book is, finally, a hash. Plot lines are disjunct; speaking voices are unidentifiable; transitions are often nonexistent. It feels as if someone took a great novel, threw the pages into the air and then printed the clumps that came down together in no particular order. Dunne did not see the ... Read More
Rating:  - Tongue in Cheek, Fast-Paced, Cynical, Super Thriller
Nothing Lost is narrated by Max Cline, who was ousted from the prosecutor's office when South Midland's born-again Christian Attorney General, Jerrold Wormwold (AKA "The Worm" finds out that he is gay.
Max was supposed to prosecute trial of two white men (Duane Lajoie and Bryant Gover) accused of the gruesome torture and murder of a black drifter named Edgar Parlance. Gover quickly rats out Lajoie, who happens to have a supermodel sister, Carlyle. Carlyle has agreed to pay for his legal ... Read More
Rating:  - Nothing Lost except the time to read this book
I really thought the author had a terrific idea in writing a send up of our modern world plotted around a sensational killing. All the elements were there, the media, hollywood, gays, etc. However, he missed the opportunity to paint the characters and the plot in broad satirical brush strokes. Often you could almost take these characters seriously. The dialogue, which is probably typical for Dunne, is too clever by half. This book certainly did not make me want to read any more of his writings.
Rating:  - Smart, fun, and pleasingly cynical
I'm at home on bed rest and desperate for something good to read. This book did the trick.. The narrator is smart, funny, and clearly aware that it is next to impossible to do much about most of the evil sleaziness of the world. Certainly it is impossible to make changes in individual lives, one at a time. (Or maybe I'm just jaded, too. Some may call it maturity.) Clearly, the narrator is the most decent character in a novel full of morally bankrupt people (from both sides of the tracks). Ironically, ... Read More
Rating: - Not Dunne's Best, But Well Worth Reading
John Gregory Dunne was a greatly underappreciated American writer at the time of his death in December 2003. His novel about the Black Dahlia case, "True Confessions" is a masterpiece of neo-noir and black comedy (forget about the dull movie version with DeNiro and Duvall.) His searing, direly funny "Dutch Shea, Jr." is a classic waiting to be rediscovered. "Nothing Lost" is set in the same fictional universe as "The Red White, and Blue" and "Playland". Those ... Read More
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