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Sparrow Nights

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I am impressed by Gilmour's work here. He does an excellent job at expressing the emotions one would explain if our heart or the person that we so entwine with our selves leaves us. This novel shows how one person deals with this universally experienced scenario. The shortcoming for me was that there is no completeness to this novel. The novel starts with showing how classy our professor is and it shows his decline into something definitely less than the persona he so cherished about himself. The ending how ever does not really pursue or finish pursue any of the themes raised in the earlier parts of the novel. The professor is just left hanging in the middle of his dilemma.

this book is full of self-created misadventures by a love-sick college professor...i am not sure whether or not it is intentionally humorous but i found it to be hilarious in its bleak blackness...one bad thing after another for this poor self-involved creature...well worth reading....slim and captivating.

Very elegant. Very droll. Very Nabokovian.

SPARROW NIGHTS by David Gilmour is the only book I have read in my 78 years that when I read the last word of the book, I instantly turned back to page one and re-read the entire book again. I'm an addicted reader, college English Teacher, Master's in Literature, taught college Literature for years, have read thousands of books. None surpass Gilmour's book.
His intuitive perceptions are phenomenal. It's an original.

I even copied a few quotes which I rarely do. One is "I saw my neighbor's cat with a mouse in its mouth; you could almost hear it's tiny screams. Lord, what a world." p.203 I've always been a little nervous that we animals have to eat each other.

I immediately ordered SPARROW NIGHTS and also a Blu-Ray DVD of Gilmour performing.

And never before have I ever immediately reread a book after I read the last word in it.

I was listening to an interview with the author - David Gilmour. He has two ex-wives, both of whom had read the book - one ex was very toubled by the book and suggested therapy sessions. The other ex believed this to be his "breakthrough novel". Who could resist! I ran out and bought and devoured it that night. I agree with ex number 2 and believe Mr. Gilmour is a unique voice whose time has come.