From Publishers Weekly
While lyrical, Tillman's second novel, narrated by a young American traveling through Europe, lacks focus.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
By the author of Haunted Houses (LJ 3/1/87), this novel is a loose chronicle of a single woman's months of wandering in the cities of contemporary Europe. The unnamed American protagonist is vaguely bohemian, although her past life is nebulous. She collects hundreds of postcards on her trip, "which she often writes on but may not always send." The book itself is like these cards: a series of scenes, ordered by their relationships to each other rather than chronologically. Filmmaker Tillman focuses on the process of the trip rather than on any destination, giving us an intense and personal narrative. People and events are approached obliquely and never fully explained, as if we might know them already. This lean book is a welcome change after the baroque excesses of much contemporary fiction. Recommended for sophisticated readers. Literary Guild alternate.
- Gwen Gregory, U . S . Courts Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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