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Next Life Might Be Kinder (2014)

by Howard Norman(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

054771212X (ISBN13: 9780547712123)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: OOOOH, wonderful new book by Howard Norman. I fell in love with his writing years ago when I read The Bird Artist. Listen to this FIRST SENTENCE: "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." How's that for a grabber? And he never lets go. Sweeps you through right to the end. I guess you would call it a sort-of psychological thriller or mystery - but it's not. It's a piece of literary art. THANK YOU, HOWARD NORMAN. I couldn't put this one down. I bought it in the bookstore up in Point Reyes and the owner said he often comes to Point Reyes to write.
review 2: I laughed throughout, and found its loose plotting interesting. I am knocking one point off because I, with my limited l... moreiterary breadth, had thought “The Victorian Chaise-Longue” was a book-within-a-book conceit, and was somewhat disappointed to find out that it actually exists and was not the invention of Norman. This may be unreasonable, and I only find solace in how meaningless my Goodreads ratings are. less

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