Book review: The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Faulks has so many words
that mean “ache”…
Book review:
The Girl at the Lion d’Or
by Sebastian Faulks
New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books/A Division of Random House, Inc., 1989.
Richly Gallic, redolent of the interwar period in Europe, The Girl at the Lion d’Or is a cumulative revelation of Anne (the Girl) and a steadily burdensome understanding of the sad hindrances in her life. She comes to love Hartmann, who is ultimately contemptibly weak and viciously temporizing.
I wanted to read faster near the end so I could know the outcome, but I resisted the impulse. I wanted to read all the words.
Faulks really makes it worthwhile to read every word. His prose is tenaciously literate and evocative.
He has no mere words—he writes passages that invite the reader to understand deeply and to feel deeply.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2018 All rights reserved.
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