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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Beespeckled, thanks so much for the heads-up about Louis Bayard and his three mystery thrillers in historical settings. I agree the School of Night sounds worth looking out for. His website is here.
I have Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore in my tbr pile ...
TGS, your praise for American Rust is very intriguing given this is Philipp Meyer's debut novel. Can you comment a bit more on the story or style? |
The story is of two young men in the depressed rust belt town of Buell, Pennsylvania, and their connections with each other and their respective families. Narratively it is interesting because, whilst there is a classic third person narrator, chapters shift between characters and between this third person narrator and greater or lesser degrees of free indirect style.
I read it in two days...I'm a very slow reader and a normal 300 page novel can easily take me a week...in part at least because of the quality of the writing.
Hope this helps.