viragohaus's reviews
237 reviews

Fascinating novel about the fellowship of readers as ballast against trouble, with fantasy in the corner of the narrator's eye.
Another great recommendation from James Bradley.

A rich, well imagined novel that was a pleasure to read. And yet...
As a fan of Patrick White, Gail Jones currently lacks both the weight & corporality of White's work and so seems to lack a deep knowledge about her characters.
Is it fair to compare her to White?
Perhaps not, but the surety of so much of her imagery makes me wish, like for a dear friend, that things were better.

Perkins' clear, precise command of the narrative voice is the primary strength of Novel About My Wife.

'He is a writer who knows that the spaces between words and the stories they tell are as important as language itself.' Sophie Cunningham.

A dyspeptic, Franzenesque set of frazzled nerves of a novel but with a ixnay on J-Fra's loquaciousness. Highly recommended. 

The Resurrectionist by James Bradley takes you deep and dark, before the hard scrabble of a small, broken redemption. Incredible.