Polar
T.R. Pearson
T.R. Pearson is one of my favorite authors. His trilogy A Short History of A Small Place, Off for the Sweet Hereafter, and The Last of How It Was, are hilarious reads. I highly recommend them. Pearson's style of writing may be viewed as long-winded by some. However, if you've ever come across a small country town you will admire this style as a true replica of small town speech patterns. Pearson's ability to tell a story keeps the reader intrigued and usually laughing. It is for these reasons I decided to delve into one of Pearson's latest works, Polar.
Polar describes the unlikely transition of a rather trashy old individual who spent his time watching and relating to others the exact details of pornographic movies to a soft-spoken, polite, prophet of sorts. Clayton's change is worrisome only to a sheriff's deputy in the small town in which he lives to whom Clayton reveals a fact about a young girl from the community who has been missing for many years. The difficulty is Clayton's prophesies arise at random rather than from direct questioning or confrontation.
I have around 100 pages left to read of Polar. So far it has delivered. Pearson has a gift for detailed and comical description which has continued in this novel. It takes place in a town near Roanoke, Virginia. As a resident of Blacksburg, just thirty miles south of Roanoke, I find comaraderie in its environmental depictions.
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