Beware the Solitary Drinker
She's put off by his jaded attitude and offbeat lifestyle, but comes to rely upon his familiarity with the city's darker underside.
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Brian, in turn, enlists the aid of a cadre of neighborhood cronies. A leftist politically, a dedicated union man, Brian learns that when you dig into people's lives, rich or poor, you find things kept hidden for good reason.
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Lukasz Pruski’s review of Beware the Solitary Drinker
I definitely prefer to be sad and lonely on my own. Brian McNulty, a bartender at Oscar's in Manhattan narrates the story.
A pretty young woman who has been a frequent patron of the bar gets murdered and Brian, at first quite unwillingly, undertakes a private investigation. Towards the end, the novel turns from refreshingly quirky into a rather standard whodunit, and the climax of the plot, with two typically implausible cinematic scenes, is quite a bit ridiculous. Good writing and some memorable fragments of prose save the novel for me.
For instance, there's a wonderful scene of a visit to a newspaper magnate and Wall Street tycoon, a funny snippet of prose about the arrogance of rats on the streets of New York, and many others. Lehane quite amusingly presents Brian's strongly anti-establishment opinions and his continual defense of the poor who are oppressed by the rich. I happen not to entirely disagree with the view, so I find the sociological layer of the novel quite interesting. And one last good thing about the author - he manages to finish the book in well under pages.
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