"A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and……" — Michael Silverblatt
"A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition."
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Michael Silverblatt
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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