A review by ocurtsinger
Fup by Jim Dodge

3.0

A charming and well-crafted allegory that never really rises to anything more than that. Maybe I expected more from all the rave reviews from friends. Dodge has a Kesey-like love of rural California that shines in his prose, and the trio of main characters are a loveable bunch (as well as the antagonist wild boar), but there's nothing here that really socked me over the head, demanding the high praise that I've heard from so many. Still worth the read; it must be hard to craft such a tight novel in so few pages.