A review by bluelilyblue
Harvest by Jim Crace

3.0

Harvest is at its most enjoyable in its musings on the almost divine connection between the subsistence farmer and his land. I didn't care much for the plot, because there was little of it to begin with, but Crace's prose is quite effortlessly marvelous in places.

It isn't hard for me to praise them fulsomely for what they are as pretty things, a kind of vision of the world - our little world, in fact - that I have never seen before and which has left me moved and oddly breathless. [...] But still I'm left to wonder where we'll be on them in days and years to come. And so my breathlessness. There's something in these shapes and lines, in these casual, undirected blues and greens, that, for all their liveliness, seems desolate.