Book 57/100 from Time Magazine's "100 Best Novels: 1923-present"
Maybe it was fate that I'd read a story laced with inevitablity while going through diffculties in my own life. I, like Morris Bober, feel the winds of inevitability in constant force against me these days, that no matter which way I turn or direction I take feels wrong and ill-advised, but utterly unavoidable in retrospect. But, like Frank Alpine, the assistant, who too feels the crushing density of fate against him, he strives to break the shackles of vice he has known all his life. He struggles to transform himself, completely self-aware of his faults yet reticent to thwart his destiny as a thief. Yet he is autonomous, he is free, like the bird widdled from a chunk of wood, and if he so chooses can lift himself high and far.
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