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The Architects Are Here
by
Michael Winter (Goodreads Author)
When Gabriel English’s partner Nell doesn’t come home from work one day, he connects with longtime friend David Twombly for a trip back to their hometown in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where years back all their lives began to unravel with a tragic drowning. As the journey progresses, secrets are unveiled, a friendship is tested, and there is a run-in with the Hurley famil...more
Hardcover
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by Viking Books
(first published September 9th 2008)
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Long listed for The Giller 2007
I recently read This All Happened, and then this book , published seven years later. I was pleased to discover the same POV character: Gabriel English. The writing style is similar, but different. (Or as the Thai say: same-same, but different.)
Having said that, I still believe that Michael Winter’s writing style is such that he can be credited with having his own, distinctive voice: read a page in either book, and you will recognize that the writing style belongs t...more
I recently read This All Happened, and then this book , published seven years later. I was pleased to discover the same POV character: Gabriel English. The writing style is similar, but different. (Or as the Thai say: same-same, but different.)
Having said that, I still believe that Michael Winter’s writing style is such that he can be credited with having his own, distinctive voice: read a page in either book, and you will recognize that the writing style belongs t...more
This was a frustrating novel. i like some parts of it very much - the characters, and the setting, but they never did gel as a real belieavle sotry. I kept reading because I loved the dialogue and because I thought surely something would actually happen by agency and not by chance, but if there was a point it was lost on me.
My thoughts on Michael Winter's The Architects Are Here:
I had the same problem with this book as I did with Robertson Davies's Fifth Business. The Architects Are Here and Fifth Business is actually a pretty interesting side-by-side comparison given the very clear influence of Jungian philosophy in both works: the two brethren influencing each other’s life and personalities. Not only that, but the similar plot lines too…
Anyways, it's a novel and I understand novels are necessarily long, but autho...more
I had the same problem with this book as I did with Robertson Davies's Fifth Business. The Architects Are Here and Fifth Business is actually a pretty interesting side-by-side comparison given the very clear influence of Jungian philosophy in both works: the two brethren influencing each other’s life and personalities. Not only that, but the similar plot lines too…
Anyways, it's a novel and I understand novels are necessarily long, but autho...more
Enjoyable, if not a bit absurd at points.
Great story, great characters, inventive writing.
Characters so real and flawed that you'll be convinced they're you! It's like reading a mirror...
I hate this book so much that I can't even finish it. That's unfortunate, as I'm supposed to review it for a publication. The one star is for the Canadian references. The characters visited some Montreal locations that I am familiar with, and I enjoyed that. Otherwise.... ugh!
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Author of five books: The Architects Are Here, The Big Why, This All Happened, One Last Good Look, Creaking in their Skins. His novel, The Death of Donna Whalen, is slated for publication in 2010.
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