The novel ground to a halt.
Dinerstein's prose is detailed, and keeps the novel grounded as the characters face the arctic summer's end.
This is a novel grounded in time: the papers revel in the lewd details of Monicagate while the dot.com bubble grows and grows.
It focusses on a Chicago attorney, Donald Moore, and his efforts to get the death sentence of a convicted killer, Paul Crump, commuted, on the then novel ground that the prisoner had been rehabilitated.
Louise O'Neill struck gold with Only Ever Yours but her second novel, grounded firmly in our world and not cushioned by a future setting, delivered a sledgehammer blow that left a tremendous impact on me.
By Thessaly La Force December 18 , 2009Michael Idov, who recently translated his novel "Ground Up" into Russian, wrote me with this gem of an item about the translator of "The Original of Laura," a professor named Gennady Barabtarlo.
(Via the Jewish Book Council Blog) Michael Idov, who recently translated his novel "Ground Up" into Russian, wrote me with this gem of an item about the translator of "The Original of Laura," a professor named Gennady Barabtarlo.
Michael Idov, who recently translated his novel "Ground Up" into Russian, wrote me with this gem of an item about the translator of "The Original of Laura," a professor named Gennady Barabtarlo.
The Russian GQ editor Michael Idov — author of the English-language novel "Ground Up" and coauthor of its best-selling Russian translation — wrote a lucid and funny takedown of the work, speculating that if Salinger's original had inspired Mark Chapman to shoot John Lennon, the most that Nemtsov's translation could hope for was "to incite an unbalanced person to stick up a beer kiosk".
