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