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I started this and thought, "Oh great, another novel/memoir about a disaffected creative dude in his late 20s/early 30s," but Allinson's writing quickly won me over. The book bleeds between time periods and locations, and you find yourself immersed in the mind of this self-absorbed, lonely, dreamer as he flips through memories and ponders where his life is going. It all sounds very self-indulgent, and it sails pretty close to the line at times, but Allinson is a really wonderful prose stylist an
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Jun 07, 2018
Scribe Publications
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It’s thrilling to read writing like this. Panels of visual perfection strung throughout give sustained lapidary brilliance … There’s a lot of learned conversation about art and art history … [and] some tender and anguished inquiries about whom we love and why … Underneath all of this is the eternal question about how to be authentically yourself in the world … [A]n extravagantly good novel. Not only does it have assurance and authority, it is made with that remarkable magical force of authentici
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Like Greg Baxter and Ben Lerner, Allinson negotiates the semi-porous boundaries between the New World and the Old, the present and the past, English speakers and the rest. This novel is beautifully poised, especially in its playful feints with what is and what is not surreal. Thoughtful, readable, involving; a seductive new literary voice.
Richard Beard, Author of Acts of the Assassins and X20
A “voice-driven” narrative par excellence, at the heart of which is a sensually evoked life … Allinson’s ...more
Richard Beard, Author of Acts of the Assassins and X20
A “voice-driven” narrative par excellence, at the heart of which is a sensually evoked life … Allinson’s ...more
Jul 30, 2022
Claire
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