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Ne’er-do-well immigration attorney Harrison Bent can’t imagine why the wealthy and mysterious Maggie Leudecke wants him to solve her eminent domain problem. If he didn’t have an angry wife to placate, an inscrutable stalker to identify, an obsessed girlfriend to escape, and a murder to solve, a successful outcome to the Leudecke case might revive his career, pay for his autistic son’s special school, and—most important of all—help convince his young paralegal, Chloe, that the afternoon she spent with him in a cheap motel wasn’t an error in judgment, but the beginning of something profound. If only he had some clue as to what he was doing . . . .
From the book: I know myself. That’s the good news. That’s also the bad news. For example, I knew I was not equipped to deal with the Leudecke case. I also knew I wouldn’t turn it down or hand it off to somebody better suited. But, seriously, what background did I have in eminent domain? Or with Mexican drug dealers? Or dead Mexican drug dealers? None. And I knew it.
- Sales Rank: #1552466 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-08-07
- Released on: 2015-08-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Hudder's rollicking carnival of a debut novel." ~ Lone Star Literary Life.
Named to Lone Star Literary Life's "Top Ten Texas Fiction Favorites, 2015"
From the Back Cover
In Cliff Hudder's thoroughly captivating first novel, an immigration attorney, Bent, haunted by signature fainting spells, moves through a rich, border landscape of Texas populated by witches, mobsters, anyone who thinks they can finagle law into profit, and the misfits of Cafe Rico. But he also faces personal borders--drug addiction, adultery, and a hard-nosed therapist who says of his infidelities, "If you want companionship . . . society is saying buy a fucking pet." Through Hudder's protagonist is happily anything but hardboiled, his prose is: precise, unflinchingly honest, heartbreakingly beautiful. His gorgeous, noirish landscape of contemporary Texas is sure to thrill. ~ Wendell Mayo, author of The Cucumber King of Kedainiai.
One of the most compulsively readable, surprising books I've seen in years. Hudder has created an everyman in Harrison Bent: among the most memorable, neurotic, and likably unlikable narrators in recent history. Each scene of Pretty Enough for You throbs with the love Bent has for his autistic son, Henry, who lives in Bent's heart as he will remain in yours long after you've finished this marvelously funny, intricately plotted, and brave novel. ~ David Samuel Levinson, author of Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence.
Cliff Hudder's Pretty Enough for You is a guy's book, meaning its emphasis is on men and their concerns: work and sex. The narrator could be a Richard Russo character: an anti-hero aware of his faults but unaware of his innate goodness. Part of his "assholery" is his treatment of women, but he doesn't treat men, especially himself, any better. Read this for his bad-luck shenanigans, but most of all for his pitch-perfect, self-deprecating humor. ~ Nan Cuba, author of Body and Bread.
With Pretty Enough for You, Cliff Hudder plumbs our capacity for yearning and tenderness, yet somehow makes it all exceedingly funny and charming. Harrison Bent is Bent--perhaps even a bit twisted--but his story is that rare sort that makes us hungrier for it with every page we consume. This is a marvelous novel by a writer of the highest, most compassionate order ~ Bruce Machart, author of The Wake of Forgiveness
About the Author
CLIFF HUDDER earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Houston. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards, the Peden Prize, and the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His novella, Splinterville, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award. He teaches English at Lone Star College-Montgomery and lives in Conroe, Texas.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Rollicking carnival of a debut that reminded me of Pynchon's Inherent Vice and Vineland
By Texasbooklover
Fiction
Cliff Hudder
Pretty Enough for You: A Novel
Texas Review Press, 978-1-68003-038-9, 344 pgs., $22.95
July 15, 2015
Pretty Enough for You is Cliff Hudder’s rollicking carnival of a debut novel.
Harrison Bent is a self-absorbed, adolescent middle-aged ne’er-do-well immigration attorney in love with a twentysomething paralegal, married to a Filipino au pair who needed citizenship, with a girlfriend-stalker, whose philosophy is go-along-to-get-along. Playing hooky from responsibility, marinating in rum-Vicodin-Xanax cocktails and lying to his therapist, Bent is assigned a new case. “I knew I was not equipped to deal with the Leudecke case. I also knew I wouldn’t turn it down or hand it off to somebody better suited … what background did I have in eminent domain? Or with Mexican drug dealers? Or dead Mexican drug dealers?” Bent’s also deficient in pyromaniacs, witches, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, but he gets a crash course.
Hudder exhibits superlative comedic talent. “I had stretched my nineteenth year pretty far. I had stretched it right up to my forty-fifth year, some would say, but now I was forty-eight.” Bent prefers to drink “Cuba Tiránicas (like Cuba Libres but more oppressive).” Dialogue:
[Bent] “What do you know about him?”
“Never heard of him….But I can get you what you want from him, without him knowing.”
“That’s really confusing.”
“If you want to know more, I’ll need something from you. Obviously.”
“Obviously….You want me to buy you another drink?”
“Yes.”
I bought him another drink. “Is there something else?”
“Oh, yes. There’s something else.”
I thought about the possibilities. “Money?”
“Of course, money.”
What were expense accounts for? “How much would you like?”
“Exactly. How much?”
“Look, help me out a little here….How much to take me to him?”
“First the word.”
“I’m sorry?”
“The word for what you want. Tell me the word, and I’ll take you to Eladio.”
“Who you don’t know.”
“Never heard of him.”
Women exist in relation to Bent’s immediate needs. His exasperating running commentary (flab, hip flab, overwide hips, thick ankles, wrinkles, thinning hair, beefy, pretty enough) made me want to put him in a Speedo and see how he measures up. But I did not dislike him — he manages to be just self-aware enough to avoid complete cretinhood.
He is capable of introspection with a Bent twist. “[L]like on a tour of the Coliseum in Rome, when some American a******s in the group won’t shut up — they insult the ruins, talk loud on their cell phones as the guide attempts to explain how many Christians were slaughtered — and they make you feel you have to apologize to the guide and all of Rome and to a lot of dead Christians, too, and not just for the a******s or their behavior or even for yourself, but for your whole country: maybe your way of life.”
Hudder’s Pretty Enough for You reminds me of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and Vineland. Hudder avoids the temptation to rehabilitate Bent while still delivering character development. The ending is unexpectedly affecting and satisfying without being wrapped in a happily-ever-after bow. I hope Mr. Hudder is working on another.
Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
absolutely nothing like I expected
By Jana
This book is nothing, absolutely nothing like I expected. At first, I thought the cover was a bad choice, but after finishing Pretty Enough For You, I know it was the perfect quirky design.
If you can forge through the first few chapters as I did with plenty of skimming, the book grabs you. As a woman, I learned too much about the male mind, which was hilarious and captivating. Do guys seriously think like this? I found myself rolling my eyes, laughing at Bent’s stupidity, and thinking what an idiot. Loved it! Let’s be honest, what female doesn’t think these things of men?
Hudder did an excellent job portraying the stereotypical male protagonist who created his own problems in his perfect life because of his addiction to alcohol and sex. I wanted to shake Bent and tell him to grow up. Then, when I least expected some literary accomplishment after all of this male regurgitation, Hudder created twists and pulled elements together in a beautiful display of writing that actually has a moral applicable to real life. Bent kind of grows up. He learns real life lessons and even feels pain and maybe true love. You have to read this. Promise you will not put it down if you get bored in the first half. The climax and resolution are worth trudging through the muck.
My only draw back is the use of too many words to express what Bent is feeling, thinking, or seeing. Cutting out some of the literary clutter would have made this my favorite book all year. I tend to skim when unnecessary information is put into the paragraph. Just tell me what I need to know and give a few descriptions with the narrator’s feelings and I am good. That would’ve kept the pace going instead of boring me a little. Very little. I highly encourage you to read this book if you don’t mind cursing and entering into the mind of a dirty old man. He constantly thinks of alcohol and sex while trying to maneuver through his self inflicted problems.
Only because of the initial skimming due to the inclusion of too many descriptive elements, I have to give this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. Hudder has talent. His writing is smooth and easy to follow. I loved the twists and the way he pulled elements from the beginning and tied them together at the end. It's not often that a novel surprises me in the plot building or resolution, but Hudder did! TWICE! I can’t tell you how. You will just have to read Pretty Enough For You all by yourself.
Happy Reading!
Jana
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Such a wonderful debut novel by Cliff Hudder
By bookishjessp
Such a wonderful debut novel by Cliff Hudder. Hudder will have you sitting on the edge of your seat through most of “Pretty Enough for You”. “Pretty Enough for You” is a fast paced novel, that will have you asking questions throughout the story, but don’t worry you will get the answers you were wanting. Along with asking questions you will be laughing through the humor that is scattered throughout the story. There are times however that I wished that Hudder would use less description of what is going on and get along with the story.
I think it is funny how Hudder gives his female readers a look into the male mind (not all males), from the playboy perspective. I was happy though that by the end of “Pretty Enough for You” the main character Harrison Bent had grown up in the sense of maturity.
I will be giving “Pretty Enough for You” 5/5 stars, for having a fast paced story line, and for telling a fun and exciting story throughout the whole novel (well after the first couple chapters).
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