by Michel Faber
What to say, what to say. The Courage Consort is a somewhat disfunctional choir group that retreats to a castle in Belgium to practice a complicated avant-garde musical piece. Focus is on the relationships between the characters, and Faber manages to present these in an adequately interesting way. I...
This collection of three novellas actually rates a 3.5 from me; the writing is definitely above-average. I suspect that my problem is partially with the form itself: the narratives are not short enough to be short stories with a "zing" - that focus that E.A. Poe talks about - nor are they long enoug...
A collection of three novellas of varying stories, all fairly enjoyable. The last one was oddest, about children raised in a strange setting and fending for themselves. I think I liked the first two better, especially the one about women helping excavate an historical site. The first, named the same...
Michel Faber always leaves me wanting to read more and more, especially in a book of 3 novellas that aren't quite long enough. He has such a knack for creating characters that are haunted by their own thoughts and circumstances. All the people and settings come alive in your brain. Finishing his wor...
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