Ambitious, lyrical, dark and dangerous

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	• Death of a Writer: A Novel Michael Collins Bloomsbury USA, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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Strangely satisfying

None of the characters in this book are likeable, simply because we have access to their interior lives. None try to do good things or create good art with out ulterior/interior motives. I found this premise quite refreshing, and very realistic. The concept of a pure heart doesn't even extend to the children characters. The whole novel is a constant exercise of looking under rocks for one another's nasty, sliminess. The absurd argument of the NBA committee debating whether Pendleton's book should be disqualified as fiction if it was based on "real" events is a particularly piercing jab at the holy sanctity of art awards. Even though the initial mystery isn't definitively answered, the ending was still, very satisfying.

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Ambitious, lyrical, dark and dangerous

This latest book from the Booker Prize nominated Irish author Michael Collins is much more than a classical murder mystery that some readers have labeled it. Collins' writing in fact is fierce, lyrical and true.

The complex interactions of the characters and situations - the famous writer, the struggling writer, academia versus commercial publishing, the adjunct teacher/PhD career track trap, the political infighting within academic departments, the love interactions, the brutal murder of a young girl, the discovered manuscript, the conflict of dates and the investigative process all mesh together under Collins' complex direction to produce a fierce, lyrical story and narrative which makes one want to read the book again as soon as you are finished. A great book. His best.

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