5/8/2023 0 Comments The spare room novel![]() ![]() Part one is on The Spare Room and part two is on Grace ( you’ll find it here) I’ll be basically writing a double review in two parts, posted separately. In both books it is cancer that ends a life and throws the lives of those around the terminally ill protagonist into turmoil. These two novels were published within just a few years of each other, in different corners of the world but they are both attempts to examine this vast, difficult topic within less than two hundred pages, and both use simple language, with short sentences and small observations in order to do it. Interesting enough that I will devote two reviews to them, one for each. ![]() Like the best books focusing on the death of individuals, they deliver a take on the ars moriendi that is interesting and original. I have, however, recently read two novels in the genre that I found very impressive. I have to admit that as a reader, I tend to be a tad suspicious of such books (an offshoot of these are novels about the Shoah (see my review of HHhH)). ![]() Graham Swift’s Last Orders) and excellent writers and their mediocre books (cf. Paul Harding’s Tinkers), to excellent writers and their books (cf. It seems a go-to topic for writers intent on writing solemn/serious literature, ranging from mediocre writers and their books (cf. At the same time, there are equally few topics that get as much exposure as this one either. ![]() There are few topics that are as difficult to write about as death. Garner, Helen (2008), The Spare Room, Henry Holt ![]()
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