The big post 9-11 book from DeLillo 7/10 In ‘Falling Man’ DeLillo tries to tackle the Big Theme of the 21st century – namely September 11, 2001 – and how it has impacted on the collective psyche. However, there is less of the virtuoso authorial omnipresence of Underworld, for example, but more examination of the [...]
Don DeLillo – Falling Man
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Fiction
Tags:9-11·American Fiction·DeLillo·September 11·Terrorism·Underworld·War on Terror
John Irving – The Hotel New Hampshire
October 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Fiction
Two star hotel 4/10 This is the first John Irving novel I have read and will most probably be the last. I am completely bewildered by the reviews on this site – are we reading the same book? As you may have gathered, it is a portrait of an eccentric family growing up in a [...]
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