A review by tonythep
The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie

4.0

This might just be the black comedy (oh so black) I've been waiting for all my life! When we first meet our hero (known only as K.), he is waiting to cross the street to a coffee shop. But since the recent death of his wife he's had an epiphany having to do with Einstein's theory of relativity, and has become so literal minded that he refuses to cross the street to the coffee shop for hours because the DON'T WALK sign has not changed. A further series of absurd events conspire to make K. the host of a popular reality TV show in which he confronts people with the truth with disastrous and hilarious results. Currie is a master satirist, able to walk a tightrope of comedy over a gaping chasm of heartbreak. I can't wait to read his earlier stuff.