Review of The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) by Pat Graham for Chicago Reader — 15 Aug 2015
It's easy to pick this emotional bunny rabbit apart—for the sentimental bathos, the literalism, the radiating wholesomeness (everything David Lynch parodied in Blue Velvet, down to the impeccable small-town streets and flowers framed against a screaming blue sky .
. . only Castle gives it to you straight, without irony)—though what's remarkable here, and altogether rare, is the artifice and polish of Castle's studio-rooted style.
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This review of The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) was written by Pat Graham and published by Chicago Reader on 15 Aug 2015.
The Boy Who Could Fly has generally received positive reviews.
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