The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of John Wray's new novel, The Lost Time Accidents.
I was very much looking forward to this, and it has a lot of elements/aspects that appeal to me, but I found it fell surprisingly flat.
Wray seems to have taken his time writing it (his last novel came out in 2009) and I wonder if he just spent too much time on it -- not so much in polishing it (though the writing certainly feels very worked-over) but in playing with it, resulting in (among very much else) things like that piece ascribed to Joan Didion.
(I am still desperately hoping that's some kind of inside joke between Wray and Didion, but I'm thinking ... probably not so much.
(Among those he mentions in the Acknowledgements are Ursula LeGuin and Murakami Haruki -- but not Didion.))
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