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5.0 out of 5 stars
Kirk Nesset's fiction cuts unnervingly to the bone, enchantingly, doggedly, chillingly, and honestly..., September 21, 2007
This review is from: Paradise Road (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) (Hardcover)
Passages like "nothing comes and goes without a trace," and "But what hurts is knowing you do it, and knowing you know, and knowing you haven't learned," poignantly and yet, cogently cajole us to reckon with life's intangible beauties, travesties, and uncertainties. They exigently whisper in our ear-urging us to divest ourselves of the trivial, temporal, transient nonsense with which we concern ourselves, and over which we lose sleep and sweat and blood and tears everyday-to focus on what matters, learn from our mistakes, and never give up hope. "Paradise Road" is a place everyone should journey through, truly, at least once, to really taste what it means to live, and know who you really ought to be...
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