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A Blog About Books and Reading
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.
Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.
Two Dublin city councillors have a plan to exhume the bones of the great modernist writer and return them to his birthplace.
Kevin Barry’s third novel features two career criminals waiting at a seedy Spanish port for the arrival of the estranged daughter of one of them.
In its entirety, Ducks, Newburyport represents a towering fictional edifice that is as engaging and readable as it is formally ambitious.