![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We don’t witness Shy’s nervousness, his fear that he will not be able to go through with what’s ahead of him. Shy briefly removes his backpack at one point on his journey and feels the relief, “omething that was hurting for a long time briefly not hurting.” That’s Shy’s hope on his journey out of Last Chance: to find a relief that’s not so temporary.Īs the night progresses and Shy makes his way to the lake, though, it’s not the harm he plans for himself that fills the troubling and troubled pages of Porter’s novel. Porter doesn’t provide much in the way of context, isolating the reader with Shy in the moment-he is, simply, leaving. Instead, Shy wishes for his last chance to have been taken he wants it to be over, to be past. When we meet Shy, though, rehabilitation is far from his mind. His fourth novel, named after its eponymous subject and published earlier this spring, features the troubled Shy at Last Chance, the rather haunted home in the English countryside whose aim is to rehabilitate young boys like himself. There’s a singular compassion at the center of Max Porter’s work. ![]() His backpack is filled with rocks, and he’s headed for the lake. IT’S THE MIDDLE of the night, and Shy is sneaking out of Last Chance. ![]()
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