On Agate Hill
On Agate Hill - Lee Smith
Due to be published September 19, 2006. This was a good post-Civil War novel. (If antebellum is pre-Civil War, what's the word for post? I can't think of it.) The framing device was a bit amusing, and certainly Smith nailed the voice of a dippy college drop-out trying to be reinstated, but I still question its necessity. The rest of the book is supposed to be diaries, letters, public records, etc. to piece together the life of the main character (and incidental characters along the way). So clearly, you need a way or a reason to get these documents together, but I felt like Tuscany was just too out-of-tone from the rest of the book. I wanted to read this and leave it in Halifax, but I ended up bringing it home. It's waiting to be passed on.
August 2006.
Due to be published September 19, 2006. This was a good post-Civil War novel. (If antebellum is pre-Civil War, what's the word for post? I can't think of it.) The framing device was a bit amusing, and certainly Smith nailed the voice of a dippy college drop-out trying to be reinstated, but I still question its necessity. The rest of the book is supposed to be diaries, letters, public records, etc. to piece together the life of the main character (and incidental characters along the way). So clearly, you need a way or a reason to get these documents together, but I felt like Tuscany was just too out-of-tone from the rest of the book. I wanted to read this and leave it in Halifax, but I ended up bringing it home. It's waiting to be passed on.
August 2006.
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