Fiction

eabooks

I’ve been contributing reviews to publications for many years–it’s one of the delights of my life. Below is a selection of the reviews I’ve published on novels and short story collections. The range is vast, from awful potboilers to the most magnificent fiction written today. I never mind when I’m assigned a book I’d never choose on my own. There is something to learn from every type of writing.

Almond, David: Clay

Baricco, Allessandro: An Illiad: A Story of War

Benioff, David: City of Thieves

Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Ghosh, Amitav: River of Smoke

Harris, Joanne: blueeyedboy

Mercurio, Jed: Ascent

Murray, Les: Fredy Neptune

Oates, Joyce Carol: A Widow’s Story

Roth, Philip: Exit Ghost

Sarvas, Mark: Harry, Revised

Saul, John: Call It Tender