Caleb Crain
Auteur de Necessary Errors: A Novel
A propos de l'auteur
Caleb Crain has worked in television, film, and the theater. He lives in Manhattan. (Bowker Author Biography)
Crédit image: Photo 2012 by Liza Johnson
Œuvres de Caleb Crain
'The Artistic Animal' in Lingua Franca 11/7 Oct 2001 1 exemplaire
'Bootylicious: what do the pirates of yore tell us about their modern counterparts?' in The New Yorker, 7 Sept 2009… 1 exemplaire
Crain Caleb 1 exemplaire
Errori necessari 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 12
- Membres
- 252
- Popularité
- #90,785
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 10
An encounter with police leads Leif to think he's read the mind of one of the authorities. Testing that leads the group into illegal corners and divides the group.
Each chapter, of widely varying lengths, focuses on one member of the working group. With one exception, they are not people I was interested in knowing, although the characters did not lack depth. Crain is a solid, if verbose writer, although his love of using obscure words when simpler ones would have served the novel better was annoying and pulled me out of the story again and again. Crain's portrayal of Elspeth, the quiet girlfriend, the provider of space and support, who only comes into her own once everyone else is gone and she discovers herself, was the most compelling character and I would have liked more of her and less of the others. This was a lot longer than it should have been, and I say that as someone who enjoys a long, discursive novel, but rambling is not a trait that suits what is, at heart, a thriller.
After all that, though, I wouldn't be entirely against reading another novel by this author.… (plus d'informations)