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kkennedy2000 's review for:
The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Egan really did it. She fucking did it again. I cant believe it. Back to back masterpieces like this cements her status as one of the greatest writers alive.
I cant even really fathom the spell she casts here. For 300 pages, I thought this book was pretty mid — a bit heavy-handed with the tech imaginings, a bit overwrought with the character connections. But then in the last section (“BUILD” wow she knew she was doing it too!) it just absolutely coheres and transforms and everything from earlier suddenly works and makes sense…the whole collection takes on the shape of memory itself…
Brava, brava, bravissima! I love a writer (like David Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce) who perceives life’s time-paradox and creates through their work a cyclical, circular shape that defies all linearity.
I cant even really fathom the spell she casts here. For 300 pages, I thought this book was pretty mid — a bit heavy-handed with the tech imaginings, a bit overwrought with the character connections. But then in the last section (“BUILD” wow she knew she was doing it too!) it just absolutely coheres and transforms and everything from earlier suddenly works and makes sense…the whole collection takes on the shape of memory itself…
Brava, brava, bravissima! I love a writer (like David Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce) who perceives life’s time-paradox and creates through their work a cyclical, circular shape that defies all linearity.