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Author Archives: drewsmith28
Gilhead by Marilynne Robinson (Virago)
“I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I am old, and you said, I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged american novel, Bernanos, gilhead, kansas, marilynne robinson, virago
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Cry, mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre (Maclehose)
“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. A ceremonial ring on his venerable hand, the Most Reverend Archbishop of Palma pointed at the chests of the ‘guilty poor’, singling them out to … Continue reading
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Tagged cry mother spain, lydie salvayre, maclehose press, spanish civil war
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Irene by Pierre Lemaitre (Maclehose)
“Alice, he said, looking at what anyone else would have called a young girl”. THIS first in a trilogy translated from the French is as brilliant as it is grotesque. Crime writing splits between those trying to do outdo each … Continue reading
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Tagged crimo, lemaitre, maclehose, morse, vornography
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1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf)
“The plane took in weather that was surprisingly cool for central Boliva and flew east, toward the Brazilian border.” THE symbolism of the plane is that we now take for granted what people less than 100 years ago would never … Continue reading
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The American plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby (Berkley)
“The rain came in west Africa. A massive wind blew in from the Atlantic coast bringing the deluge of water known as the south-west monsoon.” IT is fitting that there is quote early on here from Edgar Allan Poe. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged american plague, edward jenner, molly caldwell crosby, plague, william hasted, yellow fever
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Allen Klein by Fred Goodman (Mariner)
“It may have been the dramatic grounds; he may have been impressed that George C Scott and Colleen Dewhurst were renting it. Whatever the reason, Allen Klein wanted the house.” THE house was where the deals were done. In the … Continue reading
The story of the lost child by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“From October 1976 until 1979, when I returned to Naples to live, I avoided resuming a steady relationship with Lila. But it wasn’t easy.” OF COURSE, it was not easy. Lila “remained the same restless creature with an irresistible force … Continue reading
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Tagged elena ferrante, naples, neapolitan quartet, the story of the lost child
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The vegetarian by Han Kang (Portobello)
“Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.” HAD this abrasive exercise in misogynic chauvinism, puppet women, mad dreams, bizarre pornography been written by a man I wager it might have … Continue reading
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Tagged han kang, man booker international, vegetarian
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Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter (Faber)
“There is a feather on my pillow.” THERE are only three characters here, the crow, the dad and twin boys sharing the grief after their mother dies. Each has their perspective. The dad: ‘wondering what to do. Shuffling around‘. The … Continue reading
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Tagged crow poems, faber, grief is the thing with feathers, hannah griffiths, max porter, ted hughes
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Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (Scribner)
“Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more houses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do, at Upleigh and at Beechwood, with just a cook and a maid, the Sheringhams … Continue reading
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