![]() ![]() Flanagan writes with a startling brilliance ScotsmanĪn extraordinary tour de force, utterly compelling. There is much to enjoy and admire in this novel. ![]() What an astonishing book this is Michael Williams, Sydney Morning HeraldĪmbitious, powerful. It is at once timely and timeless, full of despair but leavened by hope, angry and funny and sad and a bit magical. (S2 AU in which Peter haunts Stiles instead of Lydia. Im being haunted by my dead mate, Stiles wants to say, but he swears he can hear Peter humming. This novel is a revelation and triumph, from a writer demonstrating, yet again, the depths of his talent, while revelling in a new, unfamiliar register. Into the Sea of Waking Dreams Green Summary: 'Nothing is happening to me,' Stiles says slowly. ![]() It keeps searching for the proper form for love Geordie Williamson, The Australianįlanagan has delivered a book that both distills the literary qualities for which he has been celebrated for more than a quarter of a century and recasts our ideas about the kind of writer he is and what he can do. What impresses most, however, is that Flanagan's novel doesn't end in condemnation. ![]() A book in which workaday realism is increasingly marbled with magical effects. Flanagan hasn't just written about the space between living and dying in writing about the things that are disappearing from the world he's captured something fundamental about the moment we're living in Guardian Australia ![]()
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