Wright Morris: The Works of Love
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Works of Love. Morris is very much an underrated writer . This is a first-class novel, which does not get…
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Works of Love. Morris is very much an underrated writer . This is a first-class novel, which does not get…
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The World in the Attic. This book follows on from The Home Place. The two books are very similar, except that…
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Home Place. This is an affectionate though not too sentimental autobiographical portrait of the return of Clyde Muncy to his…
The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. Daitch wrote two excellent post-modern novels in 1986 and 1990. Since then, she has written only…
The latest addition to my website is John Williams' Augustus. This is a novel of the life of Caesar Augustus, formerly Octavian or Gaius Octavius. We follow his life from…
The latest addition to my website is Don DeLillo's Zero K. DeLillo is a Marmite author. Marmite is a disgusting vegetable paste, used in food flavouring or as a sandwich…
The latest addition to my website is C E Morgan's The Sport of Kings. This novel has already received lots of rave reviews, generally deservedly so. It is a first-class…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's All That Is. This novel was published shortly before his death but thirty-four years after his last novel. The main character…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's Solo Faces, a novel about mountain-climbing. We first meet Vernon Rand as a roofer in California but we soon learn that…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's Light Years. This is a very well-written but ultimately rather gloomy tale of failed relationships and failed lives. Viri and Nedra…