5/10/2023 0 Comments Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard![]() It's a far cry from those treacly Cratchit Christmases past, and the contrast is not lost on Tim. ![]() ![]() Timothy," which tracks down the sweet, sickly little boy from Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol" and follows him on his own haunting adventures through London's foggy bowels.Īt 23, Bayard's Timothy Cratchit still has a bit of trouble with the leg here and there, but thanks to the patronage of "Uncle N" - as he and his siblings have come to call Ebenezer Scrooge, their late father's employer who now spends his days giving away money and collecting fungi - his once-trademark crutch and leg brace have long since been discarded and his health largely restored.īayard has cast young Tim not as mere character, but as narrator as well, a narrator well aware that he has wrenched control of his own story from other tellers - his father, for one, and his Uncle N - much as Bayard has confidently taken over where Dickens has left off and trundled us straight into his own vision of Christmas future, circa 1860. Tiny Tim is "not so tiny any more, that's a fact," Louis Bayard (an occasional Salon contributor) informs us at the outset of his richly imagined, deeply compelling Victorian thriller, "Mr. ![]()
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