Dodge Rose and the Concept of Difficult Literature
Rather, what makes Dodge Rose not only difficult but lushly, productively so–for this reader at least–is its sophisticated interrogation of the materiality of life and death. This perhaps sounds weightier than necessary; truthfully, I mean to say only that Cox’s novel compelled me to consider the thingness of life, and the dimensions, both comic and tragic, of our passing possession of it.
Dustin Illingworth reviews Dodge Rose by Jack Cox.