Archive for October 4, 2009
THIS IS WATER by David Foster Wallace
Disclaimer, I start this review with unabashed over-the-top hyperbole.
David Foster Wallace is not God, but close, maybe. That would be the only way to explain the current DFW hysteria: the web sites, a new movie, the buzz, the sales, YouTube. After reading this little book, no bigger than a long letter home from camp, I must conclude that, yes, DFW is–was–perhaps if not God, than a god.
October 4, 2009
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Tags: DFW, Nonfiction · Posted in: Non-fiction
CHANGING HEAVEN by Jane Urquhart
A brilliant riff on Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, this highly original novel is as bracing and wild as the weather itself, impossible to pin down, virtually plotless, yet sweeping all before it. Just as one speaks of a novel of ideas, this is a novel of emotions — emotions in their purest form, taking possession like a natural force, and largely divorced from the normal ties of cause and effect. This is not a book for those who demand realism and logic rather than a novel organized by poetic association and contrast. But for those who approach it as the unique vision of a poet who just happens to be writing in prose — wondrous prose — it is something very special indeed.
October 4, 2009
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Tags: Jane Urquhart, weather · Posted in: Award Winning Author, Canada, Character Driven, Classic, Gothic, United Kingdom
