Sunday, November 29, 2009

A Week of This in Canadian Notes and Queries

AWOT gets a hella good review in the new issue of CNQ:
It’s nearly impossible to explain how technically accomplished, nuanced, fully-felt, and flat-out-fine a book A Week of This is without having praise sound laborious and monotonous. Whitlock’s prose is unassuming but never boring, stripped of any flourishes that would alienate his characters from the voice describing them.
(I don't know about never boring, but hey - different strokes)
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1 comment:

Todd said...

God! I wish my blurb had been that, um, hella. Congratulations.

4:55 AM

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