Radiant Days
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101567043 (110156704X)
Publish date: April 12th 2012
Publisher: Viking Children's
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
A YA coming-of-age story about art, 1970s American underground art scene, Paris Commune, Rimbaud, and love in the Platonic sense.
Beautiful writing, not my kind of story.
I read this so fast that I couldn't believe I had already come to the end.
This book was okay. I liked the idea more than the execution. The author has a distinct writing style that is not for everyone, including me, it seems. It's just kind of...blah.
Elizabeth Hand is a writer of tremendous power. Both her fantasy and straight fiction works are the product of her unique, almost mystical ability to create and sustain strange and singular characters and enviroments. Radiant Days is no exception and I believe, her best fantasy. Although this is m...