Insect Dreams The Half Life of Gregor Samsa

"...Estrin is influenced less by Kafka than by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author who stretched a thin fictional skin over the history of philosophy and emerged with the bestselling SOPHIE'S WORLD....Like Gaarder, Estrin is more interested in ideas than character, and, like SOPHIE'S WORLD, INSECT DREAMS is full of expository, and sometimes elementary, passages that have little to do with the action at hand. This is a shame, since Estrin...is undoubtedly talented with the pen. He has a knack for description, and his characterizations of historical protagonists are quick, sure-footed, even poetic....[I]t's a strange, frustrating, and only occasionally fulfilling debut.Estrin, Marc is the author of 'Insect Dreams The Half Life of Gregor Samsa' with ISBN 9780425188606 and ISBN 0425188604.