High Latitudes: A Romance

by James Buchan

Jane Haddon is resigned to personal and professional loneliness, divorced for eight years and living during a time of great natural and man-made disasters, in a story that reveals her turbulent past, including a history of doomed romance, heroin addiction, and neglect and abuse

Genres: Fiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

James Buchan is a Scottish novelist and historian who writes on aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Reviews

[Bibliophile · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strikingly beautiful writing in parts but willfully obscure and ultimately pointless. Won't read anything else by this author.

[Ivan Goldman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Excellent writers can take complex topics and write about them smoothly. Then there are writers like Mr. Buchan, who communicate ideas that aren't terribly astute and do so with long convoluted sentences that too often make you feel like you're wandering through a desert of meandering pointless tripwires. There seems to have been a central idea here, but it's a lost in a thicket of vague references and obstructions that have no relevance to much at all. Until finally you say to yourself, get me out of here! And I did.

[Corey · Rating 4 out of 5]

An odd book. The plot is something like a jigsaw puzzle which the reader has to put together. And the beginning is the end. Sort of. Some dazzling sentences throughout.