#21 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

Posted by on Nov 18, 2015 in #100reviews, book review, novel review | No Comments
#21 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

  It would be churlish to start with a complaint, but I am a churl. The only problem with this book, for me, was that it piled so many larger than life characters into the narrative that by the time we meet possibly the ultimate (or he may be the penultimate, if you consider unveiling […]

#20 Brewster by Mark Slouka

Posted by on Nov 7, 2015 in book review, novel review | No Comments

Many, many years ago, I wrote about ‘The Visible World’ and argued, somewhat contentiously I now think, that it was one of those novels that fails, but fails rather wonderfully. By ‘fail’ I mean that the reader, at the end of the novel, is left with a feeling of dissatisfaction about something (or somebody) instrumental […]