Archive for November, 2013

ABSOLUTION by Patrick Flanery

Patrick Flanery’s debut novel is a very interesting example of an overarching story that incorporates another “novel” or “memoir,” a journal and more embedded inside it. Set in post-apartheid South Africa Absolution is a thought provoking book, and engaging; not necessarily, or least of all, in the sense one would initially expect.

November 30, 2013 В· Judi Clark В· No Comments
Tags: , , ,  В· Posted in: Africa, Debut Novel, World Lit

WE LIVE IN WATER by Jess Walter

The world isn’t kind to the characters in Jess Walter’s collection of 13 short stories. Each of them is a loser, living in a “frontier of stale and unfulfilled dreams:” careless fathers, scam artists, ex-cons, gamblers, incestuous brothers, drug abusers.

November 27, 2013 В· Judi Clark В· One Comment
Tags: ,  В· Posted in: Drift-of-Life, Short Stories, US Northwest, y Award Winning Author