Saturday, July 08, 2006
At the Washington Post
Graham Joyce reviews Keith Donohue's The Stolen Child. I think I must get this one and read it--I picked it up off a table in a bookstore & looked at it because in theory it is exactly the kind of thing I love, but somehow the prose didn't catch me and I put it back down again. I wish Joyce had actually quoted something from the novel, I am still not quite convinced that this book is for me but I guess it's worth trying....
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I got an ARC of this one some time ago and had a false start with it. I was critiquing the writing in the first two chapters, wondering if they shouldn't have been ordered differently, etc. But yeah, this review made me feel like I should give it another shot.
ReplyDeleteYou can have another look at chapter one over at Amazon, but you've got to scroll right down to the bottom of the page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0385516169/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-0316361-8831976?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
I though STOLEN CHILD was remarkably effective, and entirely free from cute even though it is about "faeries." I'm a little mystified by the notion I've come across that it's some kind of stealth hit -- it's a Nan Talese Doubleday publication, folks, not some Off-Off-Broadway thing stapled in the author's basement.
ReplyDeleteAll right, I'm getting it. Will post once I've had a chance to read it....
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