Saturday, May 01, 2010

A MOST ENGAGING BOOK


I have just finished reading Marilynne Robinson's novel HOME. It is one of the finest novels I have read and I warmly recommend it to you.

Salley Vickers, whose work you may have read, says of HOME...."The heart of this utterly absorbing, precisely observed, marvellous novel is the fumblimg inadequacy of love, its inability to avert our terrible capacity to wound and maim, not even but especially, those nearest and dearest to us."
Another reviewer says "The beauty of HOME is that it does not offer the counterfeit currency of certainty but proffers the under-valued coin of hope."

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