Rooney’s novel ends up as an overlong interlude, poised between significant moments, not substantial enough to compose its own movement.
Robert Rubsam
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Review: The return of Cormac McCarthy
‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris,’ Cormac McCarthy’s elegiac, disputatious and deeply odd pair of new novels, offers a typically offbeat take on American culture and society.
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Review: Jonathan Franzen revisits God, sin and the suburbs in his new novel, ‘Crossroads’
From a vision in a chapel to a man washing his enemy’s feet, ‘Crossroads’ shows snapshots of religion in everyday life.
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Jean Giono’s mirror of the present
Jean Giono’s narrators are often grounded in a kind of eternal present, where the coach will always run and a certain tree will always stand, moving us by degrees into the uneasy past of narrative.