Nicolas Rothwell
Auteur de The Red Highway
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Australia
- Études
- Oxford University
- Professions
- writer
journalist - Organisations
- The Australian
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 169
- Popularité
- #126,057
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 27
- Favoris
- 1
The trouble is that these dialogues are forced, stilted and unnatural, and the characters barely believable. Road builders encountered by chance in the remote wilderness chat about Karamazov and Chekhov with an art dealer, for example. The whole thing is far removed from any sense of reality, which undermines the whole concept - what attention should be paid to philosophy that is spouted by such shallow and unbelievable actors?
There is a lot of good writing here - Rothwell excels at describing the Australian outback - but in the end I found this novel irritating and wished for it to just end. It’s a shame, because this could have been so much better.… (plus d'informations)