In the novel, he reflects on the years that followed as shallow, self-absorbed, and in shameless pursuit of money, luxury and sex. He went to business school and landed a job at “the Firm” in a poker game with his boss. But he found that if he “could never be any more than mediocre, I could at least be rich.” The narrator, Rooney, studied acting and piano, went to Europe on a fellowship and meant to be an artist. In his new novel, “The Fall of Princes,” he reconstructs that decade, the 1980s, with the story of a Wall Street trader based loosely on his experiences. ONLINEīookslut, (October 9, 2007), Erin Walter, review of The End of the World as We Know It.In his 2007 memoir, “The End of the World as We Know It,” Virginian Robert Goolrick describes a decade of his life lost to drinking and drugs in New York. Publishers Weekly, November 27, 2006, review of The End of the World as We Know It, p. New York Times Book Review, March 26, 2007, Janet Maslin, "Beautiful People, Wretched Childhood," review of The End of the World as We Know It. Newsweek, April 20, 2007, "Mystery and Manners," review of The End of the World as We Know It. Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2006, review of The End of the World as We Know It, p. 14.Įntertainment Weekly, March 23, 2007, Jennifer Reese, review of The End of the World as We Know It, p. PERIODICALSīooklist, December 15, 2006, Deborah Donovan, review of The End of the World as We Know It, p.
Goolrick, Robert, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC), 2007. A Kirkus Reviews contributor made special note of the author's style, calling it "lush and poetic while never becoming purple." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: BOOKS " The End of the World as We Know It is barbed and canny, with a sharp eye for the infliction of pain," commented Janet Maslin in the New York Times Book Review. "In the end, Goolrick has written a moving, unflinchingly rendered story of how the past can haunt a life," wrote a Publishers Weekly contributor. Goolrick also includes the details of his suicide attempt when he was thirty-five, his subsequent self-maiming, and his eventual commitment to an institution. The book, which Entertainment Weekly contributor Jennifer Reese called an "unnerving, elegantly crafted memoir," leads to an unexpected climax when the author reveals a family "secret" of abuse. SIDELIGHTS:Ĭommenting on Robert Goolrick's memoir The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life, Newsweek contributor Malcom Jones wrote: "The beauty of the story is in its language and its keen appreciation for the details that turn a childhood into an understated Chekhovian nightmare." The End of the World as We Know It recounts the author's loveless childhood with alcoholic parents who never expressed affection and eventually lived in squalor. The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life (memoir), Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC), 2007.
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