Lawrence Norfolk
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Obras de Lawrence Norfolk
A Bosnian Alphabet 1 exemplar(es)
John Saturnall's Feast 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Translator/Contributor — 62 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Norfolk, Lawrence
- Data de nascimento
- 1963
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Groot-Brittannië
- Local de nascimento
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Locais de residência
- Irak
Chicago, Illinois, VS - Educação
- King's College London
- Ocupação
- builder
barman
poetry reviewer
teacher
freelance writer - Premiações
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993)
- Agente
- Carole Blake (Blake Friedmann Literary Agency)
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Resenhas
John Saturnall's Feast: A Novel de Lawrence Norfolk
Gets a little less cliched and more interesting as it goes on. But still a little all over the place and confusing. Not the worst historical fiction I've read but not the best.
Abgebrochen bei 20%. Ich mag ja auch weitschweifende Erzählungen, aber es sollte doch eine Geschichte erkennbar sein...
An exhausting read. A dense, literate novel, with some staggering sequences (the sequence of mankind's conquest of the sea, as narrated by successive generations of herring, is one of the most masterful things I have ever read) but also with a sprawl that, ultimately, the author cannot control. I love large novels, however this one feels like the editor's attentions were elsewhere. No masterpiece, true. Yet I can confidently state that Norfolk's love of words, and oddball character insight, will definitely have me visiting his back catalogue sooner rather than later.… (mais)
An interesting historical/fantasy-mystery. Some outlandish and anachronistic details may be a bit much for some, but it's all good to me. One weakness is the revelation at the book's end of the true identity of one of the main characters, which is so bizarre and thematically out of step with the rest of the novel that I don't quite know what to make of it.
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
- #9,770
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 67
- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 8