Nothing Lost (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Gregory Dunne
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: The Midwestern United States
- Principal Characters: Max Cline, Teresa Kean, J. J. McClure, Poppy McClure, Edgar Parlance
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Lawyers, Hate crimes, Mass media, Courts or courtrooms, 2000’s
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Nothing Lost opens with its end—“That is the end of the story. Or almost the end. I’m not sure I’m the one who should be telling it, but if I don’t, nobody will, so what the hell”—and then orbits recent events in American history. The plot revolves around the mutilation and murder of an itinerant black man in a Great Plains state called South Midland.
The gruesomeness of the murder catapults those involved into the national spotlight, as one figure after another seeks to take advantage of the death. Max Cline, the narrator, is an outsider drawn into the...
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