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Kennedy’s book is extremely nuanced, as it should be, given his subject. And the prose is immensely readable: clearly expressed, full of examples to highlight abstract points, and organized so well that it allows readers to easily understand the framework of Kennedy’s arguments...
...homicide detective and Holiday a limo driver (forced out on a morals charge by his ex-partner) when a new body turns up that fits the old M.O. Pelecanos has mellowed in his 14th novel--he's less gratuitously violent, more attuned to emotional subtext--but his prose has lost none of its street cred or bite. A ghetto bully who passes as a Jamaican drug lord is actually "as American as folding money...
...tighter focus than “United 93,” it isn’t as myopic as “World Trade Center,” using the Harrimans’ divorce to represent the sociopolitical changes that rocked post 9/11 America. Kalfus’ prose is as expansive as it is visceral, enhancing the sense that anyone could be fated to divorce, decapitation, or worse, without making the plot feel contrived.Such insecurity can also be enfeebling. Indeed, paralysis is one of the many reactions explored in “The Great New Wonderful...
David Malouf's prose has been called many things in the three decades since his first novel, Johnno, was published: poetic, prize-winning and pearl-like in its polish. But rarely sexy. In work such as Remembering Babylon and Dream Stuff, as much action seems to take place inside the mind as in the body. Which makes the love scene in the title story of his latest collection of short fiction, Every Move You Make (Chatto & Windus; 244 pages), something of a breakthrough. Here the writerly restraint-as book editor Jo conjoins with the ultimately unknowable Sydney house-builder Mitchell...
...Roald Dahl-ish twist, Every Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become one." The sensual motion of a swimmer is watched...