Archive for October 26, 2010
THE MARRIAGE ARTIST by Andrew Winer
Andrew Winer has written a potboiler that is also literary. Writing about such a serious subject as the Holocaust sometimes constricts a novelist into a more conventional form of storytelling/historical fiction. But as we have seen with such books as Frederick Reiken’s DAY FOR NIGHT and Nicole Krauss’s more postmodern GREAT HOUSE, as well as Death as a narrator in Markus Zusak’s THE BOOK THIEF, the only unwritten rules are to grip the reader in a credible story and to edify through words. Winer has done both, and he puts his unique stamp on it with his fluid, page-turning, thriller style blended with his out-of-the-box imagination and mellifluous prose. Like Plath did so craftily with THE BELL JAR, Winer will reach a wider audience by his hewing of the elevated with the pedestrian. Saul Bellow meets Stephen King. I applaud his ambitious style, which he succeeded with on many levels. Two stories parallel and merge, reaching forward in one, backward in the other, fusing in a transmigration of redemption.
October 26, 2010
Tags: Around-the-World, Art, Historical, Holocaust, Literary, Redemption Posted in: Literary, Time Period Fiction, World Literature 
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