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What a truly amazing and well written novel by an Australian writer, Elliot Perlman.
The book starts off in the present tense, New York City with Lamont William, an African American who was recently released from prison. He find a job as a cleaner at a hospital for cancer patients. Lamont is currently on a probation period in his job. He desperately needs to stay clean and on track so he has the security and income to trace the daughter he’s left behind. At the cancer ward that he met and befrien ...more
The book starts off in the present tense, New York City with Lamont William, an African American who was recently released from prison. He find a job as a cleaner at a hospital for cancer patients. Lamont is currently on a probation period in his job. He desperately needs to stay clean and on track so he has the security and income to trace the daughter he’s left behind. At the cancer ward that he met and befrien ...more
First of all, as I won this book as part of first-reads, I would like to thank Dan for the opportunity to read and review this book.
I don't know where to begin in my admiration for this book. Whatever I say, I'm not going to do justice to it. This is one of the most amazing books I have had the privilege of reading.
That so much of it is based on real occurences (particularly the parts set during the War) is quite confronting. The interwoven stories are compelling and draw you in. The way in whic ...more
I don't know where to begin in my admiration for this book. Whatever I say, I'm not going to do justice to it. This is one of the most amazing books I have had the privilege of reading.
That so much of it is based on real occurences (particularly the parts set during the War) is quite confronting. The interwoven stories are compelling and draw you in. The way in whic ...more
A very long book that had important things to say but took a little too long to say them. Three stories of different people are developed, two more so than the other one, and at the very end they converge for a climax that is more an emotional focus for the reader than a significant progression of the storyline.
Several human rights issues are addressed in the stories, the first is the integration of African Americans with white Americans in schools in the late 1950s and the social unrest that su ...more
Several human rights issues are addressed in the stories, the first is the integration of African Americans with white Americans in schools in the late 1950s and the social unrest that su ...more
