This Magnificent Desolation
A Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction book. Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back. Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation...
Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9781408833803 / 0
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Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back. Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation //
Something to read slowly and carefully. And to be sad about when it ends... This is a clever book. And if that is one's first reaction, then the author has failed. This Magnificent Desolation is at times so beautiful and heart-felt that its almost impossible to wrap your head around. Youre dragged into the sensuous beauty of it all, taken in with OMalleys words that you start to breathe them in like you're desperate for air. At first, I thought it was all a bit too descriptive, too wordy, but...
