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Adam Burgess
Summary Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan: A Novel is another brilliant morality tale of science meets religion meets the future meets politics and “so it goes.” This novel seems to take on, full scale, the battle between omniscient destiny and free will. In… Continue Reading “Review: Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut”
Summary Shane Jones’s Light Boxes: A Novel is a fantastical tale of a small town struggling to survive through a perpetual winter. The month is February, and is always February. Those of us Americans & Canadians who have lived through Midwest or East Coast Februaries… Continue Reading “Review: Light Boxes by Shane Jones”
Summary Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes in the nearly-1.5 million word novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The entire collection is semi-autobiographical and is meant… Continue Reading “Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust”
Summary: The Beautiful Room is Empty picks up shortly after where White’s earlier memoir, A Boy’s Own Story, leaves off. This work discusses not just the growth of boy-into-man, but also gives a historical account of the period. The 1950s and 1960s – the… Continue Reading “Review: Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White”
Summary: Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel is a novel strongly concerned with Christian fanaticism & indoctrination, education, and family. The story presents us with three male generations of the family Tarwater: The elder or “great” Uncle, a mentally unbalanced, violent man &… Continue Reading “Review: The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor”
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