"The conquest of his mind by age was not a mere blunting or slowing down but an erasure, as of a desert capital by a drifting millennium of sand. Time had bleached away the ornate pattern of his intellect, leaving a blank white scrap."
"The conquest of his mind by age was not a mere blunting or slowing down but an erasure, as of a desert capital by a drifting millennium of sand. Time had bleached away the ornate pattern of his intellect, leaving a blank white scrap."
An engrossing, unpredictable novel with a lot to say about the lengths women must sometimes go to in order to survive. A great debut novel. Pick it up.
I just finished reading this book so now I'm an excellent parent. AMA
Cheating on Goldfinch for a sec with this bit of family terror. I'm only 15 pages in and I can already tell this is going to hurt me.
Clive Barker signed this book before I had a chance to read it. I had no idea at the time this would turn out to be my favorite of his works.
"None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?"
A feminist, time-traveling, apocalyptic love story with a heavy dose of 90s alt-rock nostalgia. The love story is painful, funny, and deliciously real. All the fantasy surrounding that story makes the relationship feel all the more grounded.