THINGS HAPPEN.
If nothing else, just read the last chapter: it is brief, you should get the idea - it should not spoil the rest...
THE LAST SYLLABLE is a series of 15 separate narratives based around a single character, Dave. While the stories are-contained they run in chronological – each connected in series.
At the beginning Dave is 16 years of age - at the end he is in his late thirties. Each individual narrative contains events, situations or relationships: that Dave sees as inflicted upon him.
Each story develops and moves him - towards an end that is as inevitable as it is unexpected.
There is nothing exceptional about Dave, he knows it. He is merely part of life’s progress. The events, situations and relationships, in which he becomes embroiled are, usually, everyday. Only occasionally are they extraordinary.
There is little that occurs that might not in any life. The stories, as with the whole, are driven by Dave’s, very normal, reaction to events as they unfold.
The author might have met Dave, as may the reader. It is the commonality of the character that reflects society, and its parts.
Dave is very common man.