by Lawrence Norfolk
This looks more my style and it's a doorstop, which is the way I like them if they are engrossing.My cover is not available here on GR:The young man dropped the book.Okay, that first bit, skip it. I'll give you a precis:mumble mumble HATE mumble mumble BOTTOM DROPPED OUT OF MARKET mumbled CONFUSION ...
One of the back cover quotes uses the word "extravaganza" to describe this novel, and that's apt, to describe its ambitious conception, its set-piece scenes, and the tour-de-force paragraphs that go off like fireworks in its exuberant prose. It's a novel that belongs to the genre of... what? Histori...
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