Set in a small town in France in 1931, the novel is written in a contemplative narrative voice that keenly evokes Simenon and features a watchful detective with the discreet air of Inspector Maigret.
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A large-boned, 6-foot-3, alternately boisterous and contemplative man whose voice-mail message says "responsible for dead languages at Friends Seminary," Phil Schwartz looked, except for the gray streaking his ponytail, startlingly the way he did when he taught me Shakespeare and Sophocles.
But what we are drawn to first is the fragmentary, the broken, the lyrical; the contemplative, almost-whisper of a voice that floats free of the rambling, shouty, megaphone epic that The Cantos became.
He speaks with consideration but also quick, humored ease, raising his voice from its contemplative murmur only in moments of spirited enthusiasm, like when he gushes, "I like Young Thug—I love Young Thug".
The father lives in hope, the mother in fear, and scenes of their daily rounds of labor and rest — captured in images of a rarefied contemplative serenity — are joined by voice-over flashbacks revealing the story of their son's departure and the rumors that followed.
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His voice sounded northeastern, sophisticated, contemplative, sincere.
What drew them, many said, was the old rite's sense of transcendence and mystery, contemplative silence mixed with the unison voices of Gregorian chant, the pungent smell of incense and the sprinkling of holy water.
The father lives in hope, the mother in fear, and scenes of their daily rounds of labor and rest — images of a contemplative pictorial exaltation — are joined by voice-over flashbacks revealing the story of their son's departure and the rumors that followed.
