...about Donna Tartt's
new novel 'The Goldfinch'. The
beginning describes a terrorist bomb explosion in a New York art gallery. It feels so real, and is so relentless
that it literally made my ears ring.
The writing is superb.
Tartt's prose reminds
me a bit of Hilary Mantel's. But
where Mantel's writing is like a piece of antique treen, mellow and polished
smooth by experience - Tartt's has protuberances - phrases and passages of such
beauty and clarity that make me weak-kneed with jealousy.
If you enjoy virtuoso
literary fiction, I heartily recommend The Goldfinch.
Photo courtesy of my
'little bird', book doctor and writing guru Andrew Wille.
You can find him
at www.wille.org.
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