A Paradigm of Earth
Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and...
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Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with sexual misfits and political outcasts, in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: an alien child.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312877972 (0312877978)
Publish date: November 23rd 2002
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Excellent depiction of depression, excellent character interaction, interesting stuff on gender, a murder mystery that wandered in from some completely different book. I am not as impressed with Morgan as most of her roommates are, but it doesn't ruin things.
Excellent depiction of depression, excellent character interaction, interesting stuff on gender, a murder mystery that wandered in from some completely different book. I am not as impressed with Morgan as most of her roommates are, but it doesn't ruin things.
I've anticipated reading this book for a long time. Dorsey's Black Wine was a book that I seriously loved, and kept recommending to people for years. Sadly, this book not only didn't live up to the expectations created by Black Wine, it frankly just wasn't very good. The premise sounds intriguing - ...
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