Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 6 September, 2010
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