Did anyone write more dense and intense novels than John Gardner? Novels that got into more inextricable, painful knotted pathways of emotion and fateful consequence?
I never did finish this book. I think of it as on a par with V by Thomas Pynchon.
by Edward Hoagland A novel from my teenage years. Cat Man is a novel of running off to join the circus. The protagonist finds work caring for the…
I love the ambition of this book, and it seems that Follett achieved his goal: the grand tale of the political upheavals of the early 20th Century Europe, and then the unfathomable horror that was the Great War.