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A review by featherbooks
Subtraction by Mary Robison
4.0
Good to find another gem on my shelf worth reading. Robison is a poet and her writing is genius, excellent characters, too, plus good dialogue; also good depiction of Houston and the heat which took me back to Larry McMurtry novels.
If I'd had the wherewithal to write like Justin Taylor's in Swanee Review Fall 2018, I'd have described this book as follows:
"The novel feels antic, random, and tossed-off because Robison has achieved that superlative unity of voice, style, and character known as total effect. Every sentence is clean as a sun-bleached bone, and scenes rarely start or end where you think they would, but there is always meaning being made, withholding and then revealing itself like a well-bluffed hand of cards. "
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/close-to-the-bone-mary-robison-reconsidered
If I'd had the wherewithal to write like Justin Taylor's in Swanee Review Fall 2018, I'd have described this book as follows:
"The novel feels antic, random, and tossed-off because Robison has achieved that superlative unity of voice, style, and character known as total effect. Every sentence is clean as a sun-bleached bone, and scenes rarely start or end where you think they would, but there is always meaning being made, withholding and then revealing itself like a well-bluffed hand of cards. "
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/close-to-the-bone-mary-robison-reconsidered