The Last Island edition by David Hogan Literature Fiction eBooks
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A universal tale of escape, love and redemption.
A Boston fireman, in an attempt to flee personal and professional tragedy, accepts a job as a bartender on a Greek island. In an isolated cove, he meets Kerryn, an animal rights activist who believes dolphins possess consciousness, intelligence and souls. Kerryn enjoys an extraordinary and personal relationship with a dolphin and is waging a covert war to stop the local fishermen from using illegal nets that not only deplete the sea of fish but also take dolphins’ lives. The fireman is pulled into this conflict as his relationship with Kerryn deepens. But Kerryn’s passion and convictions lead her to make a fatal decision that changes the island and both their lives forever.
The novel’s emotional landscape and its themes of environmentalism, animal rights, and the costs of capitalism make The Last Island both timely and timeless.
The Last Island edition by David Hogan Literature Fiction eBooks
I read this novel in just a few days and when I reached the last chapter, I tried to remember how the book had begun. I found I couldn't because it leaves you in a kind of sun-caressed haze. Then I remembered, the book begins and ends with the island on fire. Great symbolic imagery. Because inside this short novel, a passionate intensity burns.The writing is unfussy, the story concise but as hardy as its fishermen, and the sum total is powerful. A novel that stays with you after you've put it back on the shelf.
A former Boston fireman whose soul is marred by his past choices arrives on a remote Aegean island with just a duffle bag and a head filled with regrets. He is confronted with a people whose livelihood is at risk, an environment under threat, a woman who is as wildly unpredictable as only a committed animal activist can be, and a dolphin called Yukon. But why should he care? He becomes a barman in a taverna. The narrator may have been one of Boston's Finest but he's a classic anti-hero and that's what makes his story more intriguing. David Hogan offers no easy routes to his redemption.
Some of the passages describing swimming with dolphins are as tender as you'll ever read and drive home more successfully than any environmentalist literature how much we stand to lose if man has his way over nature.
The idea of things dying is an underlying theme, but also of chances running out. The Last Island offers hope. I didn't expect to enjoy this novel even half as much as I did and came away with so many questions I would love to ask the author over a lazy beer. Or an ouzo.
You will enjoy this novel.
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The Last Island edition by David Hogan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Set on a small isolated island in Greece, this book weaves an intriguing story of one man's personal conflict as it unexpectedly intertwines and intersects with much bigger global environmental issues. I found it beautifully written, captivating, inspiring and definitely thought-provoking.
A self-absorbed man meets his opposite, thus sending him on a journey of introspection. This book hit on many subjects that caused me to slow down my normally quick reading pace and spend time thinking about each one. What are my thoughts about these things? I'm still considering!
This book was very sophisticated for a first novelist and I enthusiastically await the next one.
I've had the privilege of reading the some of the author's other works (stage plays, a screenplay that was a finalist at Nantucket Festival, etc.) so I was anticipating Mr. Hogan's "The Last Island". I looked forward to interesting and well written dialogue, and characters that were so well defined, I'd feel as if I knew them. I was not disappointed. The subject matter and the inner dialogue will make you ponder things differently, or ponder them for the first time. After reading some self published books lately, with prose that left me wanting, it was a relief to read something penned by an author that has a command of the art of writing.
THE LAST ISLAND is a wonderful read. It hooked me almost immediately and held my attention to its satisfying conclusion. This was due not only to the intriguing story but also to the wonderful writing. Hogan has the ability to immerse the reader in another time and place and to make the reader deeply care -- care not only about the characters themselves but also care about what drives them.
A not-to-be-missed first novel.
I truly enjoyed The Last Island. David Hogan's vivid imagery bring a certain intensity to the reading, and I could picture myself on that island with, at time,great melancholia. However, Mr Hogan's humor and interesting philosophical point of view brings a lot of hope that not all is lost, that we can change. For some reasons, I have started to lighten my closets and rethink my possessions...
Perhaps the best thing you can say about a piece of art or literature is that it challenges your view of the world. David Hogan's The Last Island did that for me.
Hogan juxtaposes a man paying penance for a life seemingly bleached of any emotional attachment with a woman whose life is guided by the connectedness of all living beings to each other and the earth. This comes with a backdrop of a community at risk of losing the simple yet challenging life they know as they rebuff efforts of modernization. Hogan's nuanced character portraits draw you in, as you appreciate what is at stake for each of them, and it is impossible to not feel sympathy.
Another indication of good art you find a little bit of yourself in it. Several of Hogan's characters represent an extreme - an almost impossibly detached soul and an unapologetic idealist, for example. And yet, I found myself alerted, and maybe a bit altered, by these same characters after noticing an overlap in my own band of emotions and actions.
Hogan invites us to examine our own blueprint for happiness through a new lens consider the connectedness, and our own emotional investment, with every living being (and the earth itself) in their most pure, unadulterated form. In a search for individual peace, we are all connected. Indeed, no man is an island.
Hogan creates complex characters and places them in an Eden like setting where the old ways and customs are clashing with modernity. The residents of the island, The Last Island, must decide whether to sell out to what seems the inevitable intrusion of all the trappings of modern life or whether to continue in the ways that have worked for centuries. The story moves along quickly and will give you lots to think about.
I read this novel in just a few days and when I reached the last chapter, I tried to remember how the book had begun. I found I couldn't because it leaves you in a kind of sun-caressed haze. Then I remembered, the book begins and ends with the island on fire. Great symbolic imagery. Because inside this short novel, a passionate intensity burns.
The writing is unfussy, the story concise but as hardy as its fishermen, and the sum total is powerful. A novel that stays with you after you've put it back on the shelf.
A former Boston fireman whose soul is marred by his past choices arrives on a remote Aegean island with just a duffle bag and a head filled with regrets. He is confronted with a people whose livelihood is at risk, an environment under threat, a woman who is as wildly unpredictable as only a committed animal activist can be, and a dolphin called Yukon. But why should he care? He becomes a barman in a taverna. The narrator may have been one of Boston's Finest but he's a classic anti-hero and that's what makes his story more intriguing. David Hogan offers no easy routes to his redemption.
Some of the passages describing swimming with dolphins are as tender as you'll ever read and drive home more successfully than any environmentalist literature how much we stand to lose if man has his way over nature.
The idea of things dying is an underlying theme, but also of chances running out. The Last Island offers hope. I didn't expect to enjoy this novel even half as much as I did and came away with so many questions I would love to ask the author over a lazy beer. Or an ouzo.
You will enjoy this novel.
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