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“… “This novel is related in coarse, blunt and wired language: the darker vocabularies we hold back.”
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“It takes James 90 pages to say hello.”
“… “Cusk is curiously invested in portraying herself as an outcast and controversial figure.”
“trilogy, Parul Sehgal on Rachel Cusk’s The Life of M , Laura Miller on Kai Bird’s American Scoundrel , and Alexandra Harris on Colm Tóibín’s The Bridge .”
“Tóibín practises a sustained reticence, even as fate strikes so cruelly as to give this story an absurdist edge.”
“It makes James Ellroy novels look like Theo of Golden by comparison , and it makes for mesmerizing reading.”
“I once heard Cusk speak in Paris, at the sort of literary event she is famous for skewering—those parades of authorly self-commodification.”
“This is another way of saying The Disappearers was one of the signal reading experiences of my adult life.”
“… “Bird argues that Cohn set the pattern for an angry, resentful, yet hypocritical populism to rise to power in the form of Donald Trump.”
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“With this novel about gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica and elsewhere during the 1980s and ’90s, James has written a masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far.”
“They are set earlier, covering the birth of the 20th century to the crash of the stock market, and they are about, oh, everything.”
“… “Dos Passos wrote more politically than any other modernist, and more vividly than any other political novelist.”
“The germ of Miquel’s story came in a particular glimpse of local history.”
“One feels like Norman Mailer coerced into using the fig-leaf term ‘fug’ in The Naked and the Dead , or the street gang member in West Side Story who shouts at Officer Krupke, ‘Krup you!’ I suppose you could call James’s language slang, which Carl Sandburg described as ‘language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.’ But hands are not what is spat upon here.”
“He spends part of each year in the mountains near Llavorsí, and in writing about Miquel he is thinking his way into lives that have unfolded in that long known yet hardly knowable place.”
“The Jamaican writer Marlon James’s new novel, The Disappearers , at 600-plus pages, is instead a maximalist’s banquet: It is humane, blood-flecked, disturbing and sustaining.”
“In a recent interview with The New York Times , Cusk insisted that she hadn’t expected any controversy, as blankly as Buster Keaton might mug for the camera before stepping on a rake.”
“It almost always appears in a sentence that goes on to list the ways an author’s reach exceeds her grasp, and many of the novels we praise the most these days are never in danger of that.”
“Cusk may have jettisoned the conventional narrative lumber of character and scene, but she replaced them with a series of pieties and poses all her own that, with time, have started to feel strained, the characters who sound the same and speak in portentous tones about fate and chance, the fetishistic descriptions of interiors, the inexplicable shifts in point of view.”
“How, then, are we to understand her particular talent for trouble?”