Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

Name: Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
ISBN: 9781594489419

par Stephen Marche

3/5

(15 votes)

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Première édition: August 2, 2007
Editeurs: Riverhead Hardcover
Sujets: English contemporary fiction·Individual authors·Fiction·Fiction·General·General·Fiction·Literary·Literary·Experimental fiction
Langue: English

I picked up this book solely on the precis on the dust jacket. I was curious - could the author pull off this conceit, or would it simply turn out to be a clever gimmick that went horribly wrong?

Re-read this summer en route to Scotland and again delighted over the ambiguities of Sanjania, a fictional but so delectable and familiar British colony in the North Sea populated by archaic anglos and, apparently, natives of warmer climes. Mesmerizing and so so smart.

This was really impressive as an intellectual exercise AND as separate works of fiction. I'm glad I bought it instead of getting it from the library.

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