A review by blevins
The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews

3.0

The World of Tomorrow--so close to being really good. It should have been had Mathews had a strong editor to help him edit some of this out as the book is too long...with too many offshoots from the main characters and too often getting bogged down in the details to connect it to a specific period, forgetting the story. That said, I did enjoy the book for the most part and was caught up in the story of a trio of Irish brothers and their lives in NYC during the World's Fair...music, photography, IRA members, the long dead poet Yeats's ghost [something in the novel I didn't care for...too cute], all kinds of things went into this story, and as I said, Mathews tries to do too much.