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| I have always critiqued KSR's writing as brilliant on facts and speculations and light on storytelling and character development. That holds true in this one, although the topic is of such a sweep and incorporates so much timely specualtion that the ...more | |
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| I've often said that I don't know anyone who wants to relive their twenties, and this book graphically and painstakingly illlustates why. As it opens neither Sunny nor Sonia have learned how to trust themselves, how to just be a person without wearin ...more | |
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| In an era where barely relevant detail takes a lot of books down a path of excess, Seascraper is both beautifully and efficiently written. There is not a word that is out of place, or unnecessary, in ths spare but directed telling of a pivotal few da ...more | |
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| What makes a life significant? How does one grapple with traumatic memories? When does the preservation of these memories become a barrier to a truer life? This book contrasts the life of immigrant William Landsmann with that of his granddaughter's f ...more | |
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| A beautfully written, deeply evocative and passionate novel of life in rural Ireland in the 1950's, as things returned to normal after the war and before the coming of electricity. Written from the POV of an old man remembering his coming of age, the ...more | |
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| This book of seven linked stories explores male identity in a traditional context. Being old, I recognize the men in these stories failing at an identity stemming from the patriarchal expectations of Western culture even as a more modern interpretati ...more | |
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| There is a strong desire in a work like this to try and seek order in the chaos, but part of the point here is that the inner chaos of the characters is drivng the form. What is the inner life of a man? How does Adam reconcile the pressures of his li ...more | |
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| These two guys met when Paul was 15 and John was 17. Over the next 15 years they changed pop music forever. Each chapter of this book bears a song title, and song by song Ian Leslie traces this historic musical evolution. On the way, through their be ...more | |
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