Clark Blaise

started this book and then misplaced it for about a year before finishing. This may have hampered my enjoyment. I felt there was enough material for an interesting new yorker article, but that it was being stretched to fill a book. Interesting analysis of the effect of time standardization on art in general and literature in particular.

Blaise does justice to an interesting story well fleshed out by the biography of Sir Stamford Fleming and the history of the USA and Canadian relationship of the era.

Mostly a fairly uninteresting meditation on time and how we perceive it. The biographical aspects were minimal and weak.

maybe because i'm old i like stories to start at the beginning and then continue to the end. i really don't like going all over the place. however he did the all over the place quite well and there weren't a lot of characters but i really couldn't work out if something happened before of after something else.