Word: anovel
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...pedanticallyexplain the morality of the situation and thendrops him. But the book survives. It remains amoving portrait of the confusion and surreality ofwartime and of a little boy lost. If, ultimately,it is more interesting as an artifact of Calvino'syouth, that does not detract from its merit as anovel...
...ANOVEL ON AN UNUSUAL subject presents its author with a large problem: how does one prevent the subject from taking over the whole book?-Foggage.Patrick McGinley's third novel, features the incestuous love of a twin brother and sister living in the Irish country side. Luckily for the reader. McGinley is to skillful to allow the incest itself to absorb the story. His matter-of-fact treatment of the details of their love and a well-crafted plot keep the story from being bogged down by free-floating sentiment or shapeless descriptions of characters. McGinley's polse, skill, detachment...