Telling the story of Sally Burke, a young woman raised by radicals, who has inherited her parents' dissatisfaction with the world but not their passionate desire to change it, "The Dylanist" is "a compelling portrait of a generation as lost, though not nearly as self-importantly tragic, as any that F. Scott Fitzgerald described" ("L.A. Weekly").
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Telling the story of Sally Burke, a young woman raised by radicals, who has inherited her parents' dissatisfaction with the world but not their passionate desire to change it, "The Dylanist" is "a compelling portrait of a generation as lost, though not nearly as self-importantly tragic, as any that F. Scott Fitzgerald described" ("L.A. Weekly").
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Sally Burke, the novel's protagonist, is the sort of character you really wish you could grab by the shoulders and shake some sense into. She drove me crazy. In a nutshell, she is a lost soul, but it's worse than that, she is this completely passive individual who has no ambition and is constantly trying to find meaning in her life with her various annoying boyfriends. The entire book seems to be about Sally thinking about things she should have done or should have said, but for whatever reason never did.
The title refers to an estimation of Sally made by one of her boyfriends, who decides that she, like Bob Dylan only cares about feelings and moods and not any actual movements or causes. So, the creation of this annoying charater is a very conscious thing. Perhaps it is even an effort as one blurb on the back of the book states that Morton is trying to capture the mood of a generation that grew up during the 1960s, came of age in the 1970s and was still trying to find themselves in the 1980s.
The problem is that nothing really happens in this book. The novel, written in a series of short chapters tells Sally's story from her childhood through to her early 30s. There are here and there little events, but overall I kept waiting for something, anything, remotely interesting to happen. Even at the novel's end when there is the possibility of a life changing event, we see Sally greet it in her usual passive, idiotic way. I'm sorry, but I really hated this woman, and it just made the book that much more difficult to get through.
