Conrad says that the one perk of being dead is that "the living are like open books that you can read without turning the pages" (2). Which scenes were most shocking? Overall, did you find the violence or the fantastical elements of the plot more surprising?Ģ. The Worthy is filled with startling scenes some are violent, some are outlandish.
Out for revenge, Conrad possesses an unsuspecting pledge's body so he can finish what Ryan started, steering them toward a depraved confrontation with a surprising outcome that will leave readers gasping. Make no mistake, the newly deceased Conrad is one angry ghost, and the object of his wrath is chapter president Ryan Hutchins, a "big, bright, rising star" who, in Conrad's view, is really "the darkest black hole you'll ever meet - and I'm not just saying that because he killed me." Conrad's ghostly ability to see all but be seen by no one (except Miss Etta, Gamma Chi's elderly cook, who is gifted with paranormal powers) confirms his suspicion that Ryan's dark hand has a wide reach, from beating his girlfriend, Maggie Meadows, to terrorizing Sarah Jane Bradford, a religious student who senses that Ryan must be stopped. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead - a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly without an earthly body. As he slipped into the shadows, others took his place in the spotlight, among them Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back Sarah Hepola, the memoirist behind the rightly acclaimed Blackout Ben Fountain, whose Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk went from page to screen in a scant four years and his friend Harry Hunsicker, famous for his gritty thrillers.Conrad had it pretty good in life - a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. He also felt a bit like a sideline observer, missing out as Dallas' literary scene began to grow up in the last decade. Those would-be big-screen adaptations had screenwriters and producers and directors and everything - among them the guy who helped finance Sideways, some writing buddies of Judd Apatow's, and Dallas' own David Gordon Green, the acclaimed maker of art-house movies best known, perhaps, for Pineapple Express.Ĭlarke's absence has been deeply felt by those of us who fell in love with his early works. That was in in 2009 or thereabouts, back when Clarke, fresh off having been christened a Hot Pop Prophet by Rolling Stone, was still flirting with Hollywood about turning his first two novels into movies. The Neon Palm was initially about a man beckoned back to the family business - in this case, fortune-telling and the attendant hurricanes and hoodoo that comes with any tale set in New Orleans. Novelist Will Clarke in his Dallas home Aug.
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