Books by Jim Crace
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review 1: Honestly, this is the kind of book where a plot review doesn't even matter. I could poke holes in the plot, as other reviewers have done, but this read more poetically to me. The writing style is hauntingly unsettling, a sense of foreboding is woven all throughout without ever ex...
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review 1: I enjoyed this book, although it has a slow start, almost too slow – and I was growing impatient, and was near putting it down forever, when the plot picked up – and I became involved with the main character and his situation. Leonard Lessing is a jazz musician in a failing marri...
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review 1: Meh. I couldn't finish this one, although I had been looking forward to reading it, because I enjoyed Pesthouse so much. Crace's new novel does feature a particularly fine passage about a solo jazz performance, but beyond that, it's another story of another aging man doing stupid...