I’m normally a big fan of Gale’s work. His ‘Rough Music’ has made it onto my all-time favourite book list, so when I saw this book on the shelves of my local Oxfam bookshop, I grabbed it. It’s a big thick volume, and tells the story of one family, through three generations of trials and [...]
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May 13, 2008
‘The Shipping News’ by Annie Proulx
Every now and again a book comes along that’s a real classic and this is one of ‘em – sheer brilliance inside a dust jacket. And yet I very nearly didn’t read it at all.
Partly this was due to the style of the prose which is light, impressionistic, and full of partial sentences and dense [...]
