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Adam Burgess
Summary Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris is an intriguing novel of love, secrets, betrayal, youth, family, and friendship. There’s a whole lot wrapped up in this novel of fewer than 300 pages, but the separation into three distinct segments allows for much ground… Continue Reading “The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen”
Summary: Irving Stone’s Lust for Life is a biographical novelization of the life of Vincent van Gogh. The novel is based on the many letters (approximately 700) written between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother, Theo. Stone takes author’s creative license and invents dialogue,… Continue Reading “Review: Lust for Life by Irving Stone”
Summary: Steven Millhauser’s Dangerous Laughter is a collection of 13 short stories, separated into 3 “categories” or “studies:” 1) Vanishing Acts 2) Impossible Architecture and 3) Heretical Histories. The collection also begins with a short story called “Cat and Mouse,” which Millhauser classifies as… Continue Reading “Review: Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser”
Summary: The Idiot is Dostoevsky’s attempt at writing down the essence of true beauty, in human form. Prince Myshkin, the idiot himself, is meant to epitomize absolute goodness and fairness. He is kind and generous, forgiving and intelligent. He has money, yet does not covet… Continue Reading “Review: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky”
Summary: The Soft Machine is a semi-continuation of what Burroughs began in Naked Lunch and also seems to be a prelude to Nova Express, though I have yet to read the latter. This novel, in typical Burroughs fashion (read: shocking, course, disturbing, blunt, incoherent,… Continue Reading “Review: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs”
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