So begins a love that will continue through Europe's convulsions in the coming years, informed by the author's long acquaintance with a tortured nation.
"Endgame" is a rapt, intimate book, greatly helped by its author's long acquaintance with Fischer, who died in 2008, and his deep grounding in the world of chess.
The passage illustrates the author's remarkably confident acquaintance with female clothes of the era 1880-1930, as well as, in the epithet "trickle," the gemmy sparkle of his prose.
** The passage illustrates the author's remarkably confident acquaintance with female clothes of the era 1880-1930, as well as, in the epithet "trickle," the gemmy sparkle of his prose.
Something between a novel and a miscellany, it charts the progress of a number of messy sexual relationships, interspersing its fictional or fictionalised narratives with (among other things) philosophical and linguistic speculation, gobbets of medical information and clusters of anecdotes, often featuring the author's friends and acquaintances.
There are cameo appearances from Martin Scorsese, Chris Rock and our own Alexis Petridis, although Harry Styles's acquaintance with author and philosopher Alain de Botton is not discussed.
He's an anthropologist doing vague work for a vague company as part of something called the Koob-Sassen Project, presumably named by McCarthy for the artist Hilary Koob-Sassen, an acquaintance of the author's (and the son of the sociologist Saskia Sassen, whose books include "The Global City" and "Globalization and Its Discontents").
Though "Monica" suggests a particular child of Potter's acquaintance, Monica was simply one of many children who posted fan letters to the author.
1308 21), for example, the character Virgil represents both the historical author of the Aeneid and the human faculty of reason, while the character Beatrice represents both the historical woman of Dante's acquaintance and the concept of divine revelation.
