Apex
ISBN:
9782070781973 (2070781976)
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Race
a very clever book from a really sharp writer that i realized too late was a satire. i would have thought that names would have been enough for me and he does pursue some really interesting lines of thought but when all is said and done i would wish for more meat and less cucumber sandwich. on the f...
Probably more subtle than [book:The Intuitionist], but I liked Lila Mae and the fantastical architecture of that book better than the deliberate anomie of the nameless narrator here. Apparently it's a terrible cliche to compare ambitious black literary novelists to [author:Ralph Ellison], but White...