β Shel Stone
π Fiction
π
2018
π English
β 190 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Muriella Pent
β Scribed by Russell Smith
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada;Anchor Canada
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Edition
- Anchor Canada ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Russell Smith's highly praised new novel features some typically caustic satire, alongside a deep and melancholy awareness of the force of desire in our lives. The combination of wit and perception in Muriella Pent --and its brilliant dialogue, beautiful descriptive prose, assured handling of racial politics, and exact observation of modern types--underlines Russell Smith's claim to be one of Canada's subtlest, sharpest writers.
The book begins with a poem by Marcus Royston (from his "Island Eclogues") and a fundraising message from Muriella Pent; then, in the first scene, still before chapter one, these two very different writers have a revealing post-coital conversation. The combination of texts and action, the pointed and moving dialogue, and the ineradicable presence of sex tell us a lot about how Muriella Pent will go on: it's precise and original even before really beginning.
As satire and social observation, as an exploration of what art should...
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