[The Roof Rat Review.]
Hilary Mantel. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. 4th Estate, 2014. She's a fine writer when she hits on a worthy subject; the title story is top form. Too much casual cruelty in many of the others.
The Roof Rat Review
- Wolfgang Hilbig, Isabel Fargo Cole (trans). The Tidings of the Trees. Two Lines Press, 2018 (Die Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bäumen, ). A world without grounding, perfectly rendered....
- Giorgio Bassani. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Harcourt, Inc., 1977 (ll giardino dei Finzi-Contini, 1962). Wrenching and masterful. A novel that deals with its historical burden...
- Dag Solstad, Tiina Nunnally (trans). T Singer. New Directions, 2018 (T. Singer, 1999). Unnerving and saddening; the slow spool was a deliberate strategy, but...
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