Olga's review
Radiant Days
by Michael A. FitzGerald (Goodreads author!)
Olga's review
Radiant Days by Michael A. FitzGerald (Goodreads author!)
Olga's review
rating:
I am Hungarian and I met Michael in Budapest in 1993 when he was living there and collecting impressions. Then I knew nothing of him until I found his book on-line recently. So reading Radiant Days, especially it being related to the Hungarian experience, was such a treat!
His incredibly sharp eye for detail and great sense for absurdity and irony totally shine throughout this book. It is extremely well-written, the comical is so funny and the sad is so sad, and the observations and events somehow so relevant to our generation even if they have nothing to do with any particular life. A bit off the ground and terminally confused, we yearn for things that aren’t there and then completely miss the point of what is there. In extreme cases, each and every time. That was my feeling.
I loved the narrator, Anthony. (I may be one of few people, though, it seems.) He has a rare sense for beauty – and I don’t mean Gisela’s butt -, and his approach to the novelty of being in a foreig...more
His incredibly sharp eye for detail and great sense for absurdity and irony totally shine throughout this book. It is extremely well-written, the comical is so funny and the sad is so sad, and the observations and events somehow so relevant to our generation even if they have nothing to do with any particular life. A bit off the ground and terminally confused, we yearn for things that aren’t there and then completely miss the point of what is there. In extreme cases, each and every time. That was my feeling.
I loved the narrator, Anthony. (I may be one of few people, though, it seems.) He has a rare sense for beauty – and I don’t mean Gisela’s butt -, and his approach to the novelty of being in a foreig...more
