A review by jocelyn_sp
A Sand Archive by Gregory Day

3.0

This book had lovely parts but only partially came together. Some of the language seemed to be trying too hard -for example 'the intellection of sand', and the line that was twice in the text, and in the quote on the back cover, 'leaky, desiccated type' didn't convey an image to me. That he had his young woman's address but never wrote her a note didn't make sense. I also didn't like the vague, windy philosophy.
On the other side there was a beautiful explanation of the French protests of 1968, I liked the Croatian women planting marram grass, the scenes at Bassin d'Arcachon were very good,...
Overall good but disappointing