Fool (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries), by Frederick G. Dillen
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“For Christ sake don’t become a fluffmeister,” are the last words Barnaby Griswold gets from his father. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby knows himself a fool and already makes his living as a fluffmeister, as a puffer-up of investments. Well-bred, more or less educated, friendly to everyone, Barnaby is in fact foolishly successful. Until he blows it all. At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll find out that doing the foolish thing can lead to redemption. Book Lust Rediscoveries is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published from 1960 to 2000. Each book is personally selected by NPR commentator and Book Lust author Nancy Pearl and includes an introduction by her, as well as discussion questions for book groups and a list of recommended further reading.
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From Publishers Weekly Barnaby Griswold, the protagonist of this assured and sophisticated novel, is a fulfillment of his father's worst fear: a fool, an indulgent "fluffmeister." After his devious, get-rich-quick investment scheme is exposed, he loses everything: his home, his wife and children and, above all, the spoils of a New York lifestyle he once, albeit briefly, enjoyed. Barnaby's story begins at his rock bottom: a Labor Day weekend he spends relinquishing the last of his equity and beginning his suspension from the securities business. His divorce is final and his wife and daughters await his exit. Sitting alone in what was once his summer home, he gets a providential phone call from his ex-mother-in-law, Ada Briley, who beckons him back to Oklahoma City, the very place where he pulled off his ill-fated swindle. His enemies there are plentiful, and one in particular, a duped client named Peterpotter, stalks and torments him. But Barnaby is resilient, suffering Peterpotter's abuses while nurturing Ada, to whom he's become attached. As Ada's health deteriorates, she becomes intensely dependent on him, and their friendship suffers with his interest in a local waitress, Marian Winott, who hails from the same East Coast circle that now ostracizes Barnaby. His perception of himself as a fool crystallizes, and he must decide which path to choose Ada's love, Marian's potential or a chance to salvage his woebegone lifestyle, a surprising development that occurs when, in a brief visit to New York, his intuition predicts a "Christmas Crash." He warns his old coterie, saves them from financial ruin and earns back their respect, enough that they beg his return to Manhattan. The epiphany Barnaby experiences is somewhat suspicious, slipped between confusion and a sudden closure, casting his transformation in doubt. Dillen recounts his second novel (after the praised Hero) in a dense and darkly comic voice, offering flourishing passages, clever turns and tense, delightful confrontations between characters. But while Barnaby is an engaging antihero, readers may find Dillen's tone a bit cold, almost refusing Barnaby sympathy when he needs it most, in his last-minute moment of truth. First serial rights to Harper's. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal Barnaby Griswold, the eponymous hero of Dillen's second novel (after Hero) is not just a fool but a jerk and a loser as well. His loss-to-win record is appalling, the first column includes his wife, daughters, fortune, homes, well-placed friends, lunches at La C Ôte, and reputation, while the second includes only a tennis championship at a shabby beach club, his ex-wife's dying mother, and early-bird suppers at the Dinner Box. A securities trader, Barnaby guessed wrong. Hearing of ex-mother-in-law Ada's stroke, he flies to Oklahoma City to help care for her. Bumbling, solipsistic, and sponging off Ada, Barnaby is excruciatingly annoying. Yet halfway into the book, a strange fondness stirs. By the end, the reader is cheering him on as he achieves self-knowledge and a chance at love. Dillen's prose is astonishing, manic, and repetitive, and much of it is stream-of-consciousness, always Barnaby's. For most fiction collections where readers appreciate the unconventional. Judith Kicinski, Sarah Lawrence Coll. Lib., Bronxville, NY Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews Dillen's second novel (Hero, 1994) is an eccentrically narrated, riches-to-rags story of the spiritual redemption of a fast-talker, wheeler-dealer, and, yes, fool. Fools are losers when they don't know they're fools, and Barnaby Griswold is no loser. Griswold is actually proud of his cowardly, rash, idiotic behavior through his nearly 50 years of life: he's made money in the securities trade, stayed out of jail, and held together a shabby respectability at his New England athletic club. But he's also separated from his wife and children, and runs his heart on the fumes of this or that deal. After becoming involved in the Oklahoma oil boom, Griswold accurately predicts its crash and sells before losing everything. His co-investors are none too pleased with Griswold's new-found fortune, and they connive to strip him of his assets to kick him out of the trade, as well as force him to issue an open apology to all damaged parties. Humbled, Griswold takes up the care of Ada, his wife's ailing mother, with whom he is at last able to forge meaningful intimacy. One of the few women who knows him for the fool that he is, Ada also genuinelyindeed, sexuallyloves Griswold. He meets Marie in a diner, and finds contentment in dating her. When hes called back to the country club to preserve his family claim to their sacred membership, Griswold guesses the stock market will crash overnight, calls a few select friends, and finds Marie again, the daughter of a club elder. The market crashes, Griswold is restored to social health, and ready to court Marie. His commitment to Ada, however, compels, his return to Oklahomajust the foolish sort of thing he likes to do. A well-written tale of comic sensibility, sturdily but plainly plotted, with enough skew in it to make things unpredictable, if not quite compelling, for the reader. (First serial to Harpers) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Sweet and subtle By Barbara Klein This celebration of the human spirit has a most unlikely hero: a stockbroker and flimflam artist. Throughout the novel, Barnaby Griswold wrestles with a self-loathing so complete that it defines him. The narrative presents Barnaby as he sees himself, so the reader has little hope for him. The strategy works well in the end, as the character slowly evolves from clown into human complexity.I was surprised by the story's direction after the flippant tone of the opening narrative led me to expect a farce or romantic comedy. The story moves very slowly, not the pace of comedy at all. The tennis game that begins the story is literally in slow motion. The crisis is viewed in retrospect, so we are given Barnaby's wry perspective of it. I loved the author's use of the tiger motif to deflect Barnaby's own self-deprecation and remind us that even stockbrokers have human potential. What happens in the end remains appropriately open to chance, as is life.You could almost see this as a contemporary rewrite of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," only without the sentimentality. After his quiet epiphany, Barnaby does not become a great philanthropist or spiritual leader; he simply fulfills some personal responsibilities. Nice.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Second Chances By Sam Sattler Barnaby Griswold, whether he admits it to himself or not, is largely perceived by the rest of the world to be a fool. Those closest to him, his father and ex-mother-in-law, among them, have even told him so to his face. Barnaby, however, is a hustler, a man very good at putting together business deals and investments from which he generally walks away with more cash than those who put their own money at risk. So, pardon Barnaby if he believes there are bigger fools in the world than him.But as Fool opens, it has all, inevitably, gone horribly wrong for Barnaby Griswold. The get-rich-quick swindle he pulled off in Oklahoma City has blown up in his face and Barnaby is penniless - and soon to be even homeless. Resigned to vacating what used to be his family's summer home by Labor Day, he finally starts to pack his few things on the afternoon of that very day. But where to go?It is when, by chance, Barnaby hears of his ex-mother-in-law's stroke that a plan begins to come together for him. Returning to the scene of the crime, Oklahoma City, he will volunteer to help care for her as she recovers. Unfortunately for our fool, Oklahoma City is also home to most of his recent victims, and one of them is out for revenge - any way that he can get it.Fool, the second of Frederick G. Dillen's two novels - first published in 1999 - is part of the new Amazon Encore / Book Lust Rediscoveries series for which Nancy Pearl selects her favorite out-of-print books for publication by Amazon. The books selected must have been originally published between 1960 and 2000.As Pearl says in her introduction to Fool, "It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot." That is certainly the case with Fool. Barnaby Griswold is far from being the most likable guy in the world, but he surprises everyone, himself as much as anyone, with his capacity to grow and change. His evolving relationship with his ex-mother-in-law begins as a selfish act of Barnaby's - he desperately needs a home, after all - but morphs into a relationship of genuine fondness and respect on both their parts.In a style combining multiple flashbacks, a tennis game that takes half the book to complete, and sections of stream-of-consciousness prose, Dillen creates a rather inspirational character in Barnaby Griswold. He might start out as an obnoxious and annoying boor, but Barnaby finally figures it all out, falls in love again, and just might live the second half of his life a whole lot differently than he lived the first half. Or he might not.Nancy Pearl made a good choice with this one. Fool, like its main character, deserves a second chance.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. When the wave breaks. By William M. Balson Jr. Yeah, Barnaby, Chapter One, is not a guy I would admire as a friend. He is narcissistic, superficial, without any real substance, but with a dangerously poor sense of ethical behavior. He is an arrogant hip shooter and almost pridefully detached from anything but making a buck. There is a bit of the ambush predator about him and his ploys. No one likes him for his core person, only for what he brings. A big part of what he brings is a disruption of order and the high risk capitalists he runs with seem to love that pandemonium that Barnaby brings. If they know it is coming they believe they can jump on the "wave" and ride the moment over the less well informed, outsiders and the uninitiated. Wee Haa! He is very successful while he is in the club.But then...oh yeah, then he falls off the wave and gets beaten teachable. Not beaten wise, remorseful, redeemed or even likable. He is beaten until he can no longer be cocky. He cannot be extravagantly wealthy or haughty. He has to dig in and just be.That is when the story gets going. It is written in a slightly constrained flow of conscientiousness style. It has some of the qualities of well known picaresque fiction but falls just short of the mark. I felt the style, while occasionally jarring was realistic. When you are fully stressed ideas and plans, with little assessment of consequences shoot around your brain one after the other.I am not going to give any spoilers but the last part of the novel included how he redeemed himself. It also shows that redemption is not an single eureka moment. It is laboriously built brick by brick, scar by bruise, over time. There may be an aha moment, but it is the result of the hard redemptive work done by he who seeks redemption.I believe Barnaby had an eureka event when he returned to his empty home at Christmas. Walking through the home with no one there, the gifts open but still under the tree; the kensian feel gave him the impetus to mentally restructure, maybe re-prioritize his life.He did achieve redemption. Will it last, can he sustain his redemption? We do not know and is probably unimportant. We leave him a better, wiser, poorer man and in the process he has attained some self awareness.I like this book. It is not a light read and you cannot be superficial in the attention you devote to Fool. I am pleased that this book was brought to my attention.
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