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While Pookie gets off at St. Louis, she pursues Jerry by letter and then in person–and before he knows it, he's involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl. Pookie helps Jerry leave behind his beer-blasted frat self as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, suddenly, she disappears, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.
A rerelease of Nichols' hilarious and original story about the college freshman who becomes involved with a girl who teaches him to open his heart.
Anonymous
Posted January 5, 2000
I¿d like to recommend ¿The Sterile Cuckoo¿ for any of you, like me, who enjoy those kinds of coming-of-age/love stories like ¿Catcher in the Rye,¿ ¿A Separate Peace,¿ and ¿Goodbye Columbus.¿ I had seen the movie of ¿The Sterile Cuckoo¿ years and years ago but can¿t remember anything except Liza Minneli wearing wide-rimmed glasses; I remember the song ¿Come Saturday Morning¿ better. For whatever reason, I thought that ¿The Sterile Cuckoo¿ could be one of those kinds of books that I look for. The front and back covers give it some great hype, and it really starts out interestingly with quiet, conservative Jerry Payne meeting absolutely loopy Pookie Adams. They fall in love, and the unconventional affair takes its course. Along with the comments on the back cover, I also think that a good part of ¿The Sterile Cuckoo¿ is `hilarious and imaginative.¿ However, I didn¿t see much of Pookie `helping Jerry leave behind the fun-seeking, beer-blasted fraternity man he has become as she teaches him to open his heart to her.¿ Because of that, the novel seems to lose something starting at about the halfway mark, but then it picks up at the end. It would have been better had it been about half the length it is. Even so, there¿s something in ¿The Sterile Cuckoo¿ that stays after reading it. It has something to do with Pookie Adams. Early in the book, the author writes about Pookie looking out the window on a winter day: ¿...And she felt immensely sorry for herself because she would go through her entire life shedding beautiful crystalline tears that would melt against the warm earth: and she knew that day she would always be unhappy.¿
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Overview
While Pookie gets off at St. Louis, she pursues Jerry by letter and then in person–and before he knows it, he's involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl. Pookie helps Jerry leave behind his beer-blasted frat self as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, suddenly, she disappears, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.
A rerelease of Nichols' hilarious and original story about the college freshman who becomes involved with a...