{"id":29137,"date":"2021-08-16T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29137"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:34:11","slug":"emma-cline-the-iceman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2021\/08\/16\/emma-cline-the-iceman\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Cline: “The Iceman”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Iceman”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Emma Cline<\/span>
\nfrom the August 23, 2021 issue of The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″ text_color=””]I[\/fusion_dropcap] haven’t read one of her novels, yet, but from her stories I can say that I never quite know what to expect from Emma Cline. Her last story to appear in the magazine was “White Noise,” a strange but rather captivating story about Harvey (clearly Harvey Weinstein) thinking he could make a come back by adapting Don DeLillo’s famous book. This is quite different from what we got in “Son of Friedman” and “What Can You Do with a General.” What is clear is that Cline is not afraid to take on big people and big events, often getting us uncomfortably close.<\/p>\n

I write all of the above having not read a word of or about “The Iceman,” and at this moment I’m very excited to see what Cline does here. I simply don’t know what is in store, but I’m interested in seeing where she takes me.<\/p>\n

Let’s start this together — here is the first little bit:<\/p>\n

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First, he readied the King and the Queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

A quick pass with a Lysol wipe around their molded-plastic surfaces before returning the pieces to their proper place on the oversized chessboard. Each piece came up to his knee. Sam had never seen a hotel guest actually play chess on this huge board. He had seen guests pose for photos, though, cradling the pieces in their arms or pretending to be mid-move, faces frozen in faux contemplation. Once, Valeria politely chased after a bachelor party that had absconded with a pawn; she found it in the hallway of the North building, abandoned among all the stinking room-service trays.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Okay. I still have no idea where we will be going or just whom we’re dealing with, but I of course have seen plenty of these chess sets never being used.<\/p>\n

I have moved on and read the next few paragraphs, so I know we’re following a man named Sam and that Sam works at some hotel or resort. Nothing about Sam makes me want to keep reading, but somehow Cline has got me interested nonetheless.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll share your thoughts below when you finish the story!<\/p>\n

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