http://gradsgate.com/apple-app-site-association One of my friends, who is bemused by my general policy of abstinence from modern novels, walked me over to the Porter Square Bookshop in Somerville to purchase me a copy of Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill. I read the first page and saw the prose was taut enough for me to give it a try. […]
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Netherland by Joseph O’Neill.
12-Mar-10Exquisite Writing.
12-Mar-10ethically I just wrote a review where I contested that Joseph O’Neill’s writing is lyrical, beautiful, exquisite, etc. For contrast, I provide what I consider exquisite writing. This is the beginning of Ruskin’s Stones of Venice. Note the languorous conclusions of the sentences. This is all silk and pillows, no doubt, and not all writing should […]