Philip Kimball
Autor von Liar's Moon
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- 65
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- #261,994
- Bewertung
- 3.5
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- 1
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The manner in which the author tells a unified story from so many different angles is both engaging and extremely imaginative. In Kimball’s poetic prose, Will and Sojourner themselves become metaphors for the way the country is rapidly being transformed and how the people of that time dealt with those changes. Indeed, as the novel progresses to its conclusion some 40 years later, the reader can feel right along with the protagonists how the eastern expansion starts to (literally) fence in the frontier. I enjoy the way that other notable authors (e.g., Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy) have treated this same topic and while the writing in this book is not quite in that class, reading it was still a satisfying experience.… (mehr)