![]() ![]() Maybe the conceit will end up feeling too labored, or the philosophy too superficial maybe the sough-after emotion will collapse into melodrama or bathos, or the structure will start to creak or even crack maybe what’s on offer will prove not a daring exploit but an exploitative gimmick. ![]() We are always aware, reading them, that the effort might not work-that they might fail, that their reach might exceed their grasp. Some novels are exhilarating to read because they are a kind of high-wire act-aspirational, excessive, risky. Turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and conjures a world of color and noise in the space inside your head. ![]() When the stream of the old Greek picks up, and she climbs into the story, as though climbing the wall of the priory of the rock-handhold here, foothold there-the damp chill of the cell dissipates, and the bright, ridiculous world of Aethon takes its place. ![]()
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