Ed Bernard answers “This sounds a lot like Cloud Atlas. Has...”

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This sounds a lot like Cloud Atlas. Has anyone read both?

Ed Bernard They are both brilliant, in my opinion, but this one has characters that are more emotionally rich, the structural derring-do is more important in Clo…moreThey are both brilliant, in my opinion, but this one has characters that are more emotionally rich, the structural derring-do is more important in Cloud Atlas, and the writing styles are more similar for each era in this novel than in Cloud Atlas. Another book that fits this approach, one that is far less well known but no less brilliant, is called The Maze at Windermere by Greg Smith -- in that one, the stories are united by a place, Newport Rhode Island, across several centuries. I only know about it because the author was my daughter's creative writing instructor at Carleton College!(less)

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