![]() This is most assuredly a novel about character, characters in the literary vein of Ahab, obsessed beyond the brink: with stamps, with memory, with ghosts, with stories, with notoriety. The entirety of the book, conceptually and structurally, is freaking genius. ![]() ![]() But don't be mistaken: the last few chapters are emotional gold. I'm basing the star rating (really a 3 1/2) on this read of it, which for me has lost a little of the magic since a) I know what's going to happen and b) I've poured over every line a 1000 times. ![]() But John Henry Days? This is about my 11th time reading it, this time in prep for teaching it again for the first time in almost 10 years. I have tried to read The Intuitionist 4 times APEX is a riff on all the good in John Henry Days Sag Harbor worked better as a short story. ![]()
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