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Nightwood
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Djuna Barnes
Roy Kesey
, October 21, 2014
What a fascinating, confounding, splendid book. Such risks in the language: instead of the usual 10% flawed, 80% transparent, 10% brilliant language of your average good book, she's at 30%, 30%, 40%. Magnificent characters bizarrely spaced through the lack-of-action. Almost nothing but dialogue, and in the form of huge long monologues. And in the end the story is given to... a dog. That we just met. Spectacular.
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Stoner
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John Edwar Williams
Roy Kesey
, January 06, 2013
The most quietly beautiful book I've read in years.
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Devotions
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Bruce Smith
Roy Kesey
, January 16, 2012
How I loved this book and its constant slants: as in thematic shift, as in diagonal rhyme, as in the receiver coming short across the middle, his ribs about to be broken, and he knows this, stretches up for the ball anyway. Each movement working deeper and deeper, as if a miner, as if a sliver. Does its most excellent work in/on the mess that is contemporary America in all its bigness and smallness. I have a weakness for that particular ground, and don’t know anyone working it to better effect. My favorite book of 2011.
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