|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another world,
By
This review is from: The Guide to the Flying Island: A Novella (Paperback)
There is a place and need for the extended rhapsodies of Neal Stephenson, David Foster Wallace, and Thomas Pynchon. But there is also a place and a need for the small gem like Sexing the Cherry, or the Bloody Chamber. It is in the latter group we can place Lee Upton's Guide to the Flying Island.
In evocative, dense prose, Upton portrays the flying island of the title and the people who are part of its world. It is a place of pilgrimage and tourism, but ultimately I think it is also the fact of our existence, and our over-the-shoulder look there awakens in us a sense of the ghosts who inhabit our lives. The island is in the end a place souls of all sorts retreat to and sometimes depart from. It is a beautiful little book. |
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
The Guide to the Flying Island: A Novella by Lee Upton (Paperback - June 1, 2009)
$15.00 $11.70
In Stock | |
 
| ||
