NP - All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

[David Morris]

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/512660

Jack Torrance's first novel, finally published after his untimely
death at the Overlook Hotel. Dramatized in the Stephen King book, "The
Shining," as well as the film by Stanley Kubrick.

"All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy is nothing short of a
complete rethinking of what a novel can and should be. It's true that,
taken on its own, All Work is plotless. But like the best of Beckett,
the lack of forward momentum is precisely the point. If it's nearly
impossible to read, let us take a moment to consider how difficult it
must have been to write. One is forced to consider the author,
heroically pitting himself against the Sisyphusean sentence. It's that
metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter that gives this book its
spellbinding power. Some will dismiss it as simplistic; that's like
dismissing a Pollack canvas as mere splatters of paint."