Scaling the dizzy heights ?
8/10
It’s impossible to write about Paul Auster’s ‘Mr Vertigo‘ and completely avoid the dreaded term ‘Magic Realism’ - even if it’s a genre the writer is not commonly associated with. The fact that the novel centres around a street urchin taught how to fly by a Hungarian showman named Master Yehudi [...]
Book Review: Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
November 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Fiction
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