Rave review for Alice in Sunderland
Apr. 1st, 2007 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
durham_ramblerBryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland has a rave review in today's Observer, by Rachel Cooke:
"Alice in Sunderland ... is one of the most exhilarating books I've read in years. It's a minor masterpiece." and "The result is a book so full of facts it would make your head ache if it didn't look so beautiful." and "Talbot's book pushes the genre to a new level. It is so deeply learned. It captures, in a way that many postmodern novelists have singularly failed to do, the haphazard connectedness of things in the 21st century: the dockyards that become loft apartments, the Victorian civic monuments that become branches of Boots."
It's been a real pleasure seeing this book develop over the years. Every time Bryan came to our house, or we went to his, there would be extra pages to pore over.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shewhomust and I were roped in to do some of the minor research (and get our names in the acknowledgments), and there's an entire sequence with desperance and Colin Wilbourne.
Highly recommended.
"Alice in Sunderland ... is one of the most exhilarating books I've read in years. It's a minor masterpiece." and "The result is a book so full of facts it would make your head ache if it didn't look so beautiful." and "Talbot's book pushes the genre to a new level. It is so deeply learned. It captures, in a way that many postmodern novelists have singularly failed to do, the haphazard connectedness of things in the 21st century: the dockyards that become loft apartments, the Victorian civic monuments that become branches of Boots."
It's been a real pleasure seeing this book develop over the years. Every time Bryan came to our house, or we went to his, there would be extra pages to pore over.
shewhomust and I were roped in to do some of the minor research (and get our names in the acknowledgments), and there's an entire sequence with desperance and Colin Wilbourne.Highly recommended.
