In fact, I am putting it on my wishlist right now. I must say, without the review, the title would probably have put me off.
Yes, I can see why that would be the case. Do add The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as well - it's more a novella than a novel, probably not more than 150-ish pages, but very good as well.
I find I get horrified when people write masterpieces when they were younger than I am now. It should not be allowed. Does her age show at all in the prose?
That attitude may become increasingly difficult to maintain as you grow older.
As for the prose, hm. The introduction mentioned an influence of Hemingway and other American writers of the first decades of the 20th century, and I guess I can kind of see that (not that I've ever actually read Hemingway, other than a single passage from The Old Man and the Sea). I cannot say I noticed her age in any negative way (one might argue her ability to credibly portray the teenage girl who so obviously seems based on herself is a positive consequence of her age), but I'm really not a source to rely on when it comes to judging prose.
This sounds fascinating. It sounds like it is discussing the way we project our own interests onto other people instead of trying to make room for and understand their otherness, made more extreme by his muteness. </theory geek>
Pretty much, yes. None of the four characters is particularly successful in communicating with their friends and family about the subjects closest to their heart, and so they come to Singer, thinking he understands them.
Is it written from the perspective of Singer?
For the most part, no. That would make the premise rather hard, I think - as it would make the falseness of their assumption that he understands them too blatant. It's only a handful of scenes that are written from Singer's perspective - the scenes dealing with his own passion, the thing none of the four others understands.
I have found the Western book. My boyfriend's father gave me a Norwegian classic western story. Classic pulp fiction, but classic. Proper genre western.
Heh. Do review that, when you're done.
On a side note and a propos my Mockingbird review: would it not be good to put this on the front page. I feel you admins have been a little lax in that department lately. No new reviews added to the front page, none to the library. Those two things would make it easier for people to pick up on reviews if they drop off the page after the first day.
True enough... I'll have a look at the recent reviews.
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That sounds very interesting. I want to read it.
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