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Jeffrey Lewis (1)

Auteur de Berlin Cantata

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8 oeuvres 105 utilisateurs 8 critiques

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Œuvres de Jeffrey Lewis

Berlin Cantata (2012) 25 exemplaires
Meritocracy: A Love Story (2004) 24 exemplaires
Adam the King (2008) 18 exemplaires
The Conference of the Birds (2005) 12 exemplaires
The Inquisitor's Diary (2013) 11 exemplaires
Theme Song for an Old Show (2007) 7 exemplaires
The Meritocracy Quartet (2011) 6 exemplaires
Bealport: A Novel of a Town (2018) 2 exemplaires

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I picked up this book during travels in a Jersusalem English used bookstore. I really enjoyed the suspense and unexpected twists and turns in this novel. I found it very interesting to hear the story from the perspective chosen by the author. I can't recall reading many other historical fictions about the inquisition but I would very much recommend this one to others.
 
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dmbg | 1 autre critique | Sep 12, 2021 |
A story of a spiritual as well as physical journey, this tells of a priest in 17th C Mexico who has been sent off to find all of the supposed infidels--when he really wants to return to Spain. The slow-moving pace made me want to skip ahead to the ending rather than read each diary entry.
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sleahey | 1 autre critique | Jan 14, 2014 |
In which I continue to fail at literary fiction. (Also at reading novels about post-Shoah Jews.)

It's just so bewildering, to read something and to not enjoy it. Not get pleasure from it. The prose here is workmanlike at best, overly demonstrative of its own cleverness at worst (Holly Anhalt's sections are like eavesdropping on a particularly precocious comp lit class), the characters aren't people I would willingly spend time with, the plot is slow-moving and never feels emotionally urgent — I keep coming away from books like this and wondering why the author wrote them. If they were to post in [a:John Scalzi|4763|John Scalzi|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1236228326p2/4763.jpg]'s "Big Idea" series, what would they say? What is the point? What drove them to spend time and effort writing and revising and editing and everything that goes along with publishing a literary novel in today's market? Why should I care?

I guess it's that line from [b:The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie|517188|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |Muriel Spark|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1307465236s/517188.jpg|6132856]: For people who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.
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cricketbats | 5 autres critiques | Mar 30, 2013 |

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Œuvres
8
Membres
105
Popularité
#183,191
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
8
ISBN
35

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