worth a look?

[Keith Davis]

"Luminarium" sounds good. Thanks

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>wrote:

> In a feisty essay on fiction's future, Zadie Smith admits that she has
> loved and written novels built around lyrical realism - even as she suggests
> that their authors have been less true to contemporary life than thornier
> outliers like Pynchon, Wallace and Tom McCarthy, each trying to "shake the
> novel out of its present complacency."
>
> She's right, and in an age when publishers and readers are increasingly
> unwilling to take chances, that spells potential trouble for "Luminarium,"
> Alex Shakar's monumentally ambitious and demanding new novel.
>
> Daring to fail, it frequently stumbles. Insisting its readers work, it
> occasionally left this one exhausted as well as lost; to steal one of
> Shakar's hundreds of Pynchonesque similes, there were times I felt like I
> was "flicking a Zippo inside the sun."
>
>
>


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