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A review by toniapeckover
The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle
4.0
Not what I expected...lovely and kind and good-hearted.
"I hear the disconsolate reviewers say, who so wished for headlong adventure, and a narrative arc, and dark villains vanquished, and tumultuous hearts, and mysterious heroes and heroines slowly becoming aware of their deeper selves...Are we to read all the way through these pages and find nothing but the brave and courteous Mr Carson, and the gentle and remarkable Mrs Carson, and the idyllic Fanny Osbourne across the bay...Trust me, I feel as you do...But I cannot make this account into that sort of wonderful novel; for I wish most of all to capture something of what is, right around me, right now, in this house..."
"I hear the disconsolate reviewers say, who so wished for headlong adventure, and a narrative arc, and dark villains vanquished, and tumultuous hearts, and mysterious heroes and heroines slowly becoming aware of their deeper selves...Are we to read all the way through these pages and find nothing but the brave and courteous Mr Carson, and the gentle and remarkable Mrs Carson, and the idyllic Fanny Osbourne across the bay...Trust me, I feel as you do...But I cannot make this account into that sort of wonderful novel; for I wish most of all to capture something of what is, right around me, right now, in this house..."