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Goodnight, Nebraska
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $13.00
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Description
At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign
Randall Hunsacker, the protagonist of Tom McNeal's first novel, Goodnight, Nebraska, is only 17, but already he has two strikes against him: his father's death when Randall was thirteen led to a succession of "stepfathers" moving through his life and the last one, Lenny, Randall has shot. The shooting, a suicide attempt, and a stint in juvenile hall is what brings Randall to the small town of Goodnight, Nebraska--a place where he hopes to start over. He gets a job, earns a place on the high school football team and even starts dating one of the cheerleaders; things are looking up for Randall. But in a town like Goodnight--Hicksburg, to Randall, or ShitdeVille--what goes up must eventually come down. And so it is for Randall--he gets injured during a football game and his girlfriend, thinking he's dead, announces they are engaged, and before he knows it, he is married, living in a trailer, facing a life that seems to have dead-ended before it even got started.
Appearances can be deceiving, however. To Randall and his wife, Marcy, Goodnight seems like the last place on earth; he never imagined himself coming here, she never stopped dreaming about getting out. Much of McNeal's novel has to do with the gradual disintegration of Randall and Marcy's marriage; at the same time it limns a warm portrait of a middle-American town that may not be very exciting to live in, but one where people know they can count on each other in a pinch. It takes Marcy leaving--and Randall going after her--to finally teach them both that there's really no place like Goodnight.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-02-27
Summary: "I'm about to reread it after 5 years"
I found his sense of the American experience profoundly developed. He's the kind of writer I'd like to meet and spend time with. A truly great book. I read it while I was living in Europe and it made me ache for my people, Americans, strong, resilient, complex characters of diverse lineage. He has our Zeitgeist on the page. Hooray.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-02-29
Summary: "ho-hum"
A group of us are reading this for a book club to which the author will be coming. I had my hopes up because the book club usually selects excellent books. This is an exception. Goodnight, Nebraska is not without occasional charms, but they are too few. We certainly can be sympathetic with depressed characters, marital woes, etc.; we can revel in the ultimate success of the young couple; however, the unexplained happens too easily (miracle saving of #87's life; magical appearance of a transformed Randall in California, etc) and breaks the short-lived spasms of reality. The writer does not sustain a mood; he frequently interrupts himself to give us details and side stories that are never developed and are simply extraneous ( the story of a three-legged dog, etc). Basically, we get a lot of vignettes, about a quarter of which could be profitably omitted. One can enjoy parts of this book, but it lacks the intensity of many first novels. My friends who long for the Prairie liked it more than I did.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-10-08
Summary: "one of the best books I've ever read"
This is easily and by far my favorite book I have ever read. Why you might ask? It's hard to pin point it on one thing. I really enjoy the setting, I enjoy the characters, and I enjoy how every little detail in the book is inner-twined with each other to paint this small fictional rural Nebraska town (the real town Goodnight is based off is Haysprings, NE - or so I've heard). All in all though, I guess it's the connection with the main character Randall that continues to lead me to pick up and read this book every now and then. He goes through many shapes and changes throughout the story, and learns a great deal during his ride to redemption...I think Randall is a great symbol for that person who is constantly searching for meaning and purpose in their life, and may not realize that it's right there in front of them, right there in the place they'd least expect it.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2006-06-13
Summary: "lack of coherent character development"
The writing is serviceable, but the book is either poorly edited (over edited?) or it was worked on and then set aside over a great deal of time. I think the author tries and fails to make us care about a variety of characters (a la Russo-Empire Falls) all of whom lack cohesion from chapter to chapter. Some characters are developed in one chapter, then forgotten about throughout the rest of the book. Different plotlines/character grids are developed and then abruptly dropped, and the main characters seem to enjoy mulitple personalities from chapter to chapter. Again, this seems to be an attempt to mimic the stylings of Russo, but in the case of this book, it is unsuccessful. All this book served to do for me was wish for a new Richard Russo book to read, something satisfying and complete. This book, while well versed perhaps, was neither satisfying nor complete.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2005-08-21
Summary: "Unrecognized Quest For Redemption"
Randall Hunsacker alternates in Goodnight, Nebraska, from sympathetic to unlikable and back again in this tale of redemption. Mcneal is writing in an ultra-realistic vein here and chooses, as so many writers have, to set his story against the canvas of a small town, in this case in the football-is-god state of Nebraska.
We first meet Randall on the cusp of his teen years, as he and his parents and sister are just getting by financially, and while we sense all is not perfect, things in this early time are absolutely paradise compared to what comes after the grotesque death of Randall's father. Following the loss of the family patriarch, Randall's mother takes up with a sleazy figure who clearly has his attention on Randall's teenaged sister, a situation that leads to a shooting right on the eve of Randall's big date with the girl of his dreams, a sort of Mormon version of a Barbie doll. At the end of that same night, when Randall's life seems over and surely wrecked behind all hope, he undertakes what is either a suicide attempt or the most courageous act of flying into space and counting on destiny to save him that can be imagined. Fortunately for him, his life has not yet played out and Randall survives his desperate action.
All this comes as mere prologue to the main story in Goodnight, Nebraska. Within days of facing down death, Randall, who has become an accomplished football player, is sent off from his native Utah to a rural Nebraska town, in order to get a second chance at life. There he succeeds at first in alienating nearly everyone around him, yet he is forgiven much because of his talents on the gridiron. He catches the notice of the prettiest girl in town, Marcy, and after surviving yet ANOTHER near-death experience, the story shifts forward a year and Marcy and Randall are unhappily married there in Goodnight, which is a place filled with colorful characters and off-beat happenings.
I'll stop this meandering review here and say that what comes about in the final half of this fine piece of literature is a very sound story of self-forgiveness and healing, and of a much-challenged love overcoming cruel adversity.
Tom Mcneal is a writer with a gift for storytelling and character development and I hope this first novel is a sign of good things to come from him.