The yellow finch book review

Evening Grosbeaks are chunky birds with big bills and a striking yellow and black pattern. Finch simply isnt there.

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Little Brown and Co 30 771 pages.

. While she averages about one book a decade those books are steeped in a rare kind of storytelling that a certain kind of reader namely this one can happily get lost in. If the authors are serious this is a silly distasteful book. It isnt so much a story as a late-night hagiography drunk on distilled irony.

To ask why this is so would be a far more useful project. After the colonel leaves Bartle learns that American soldiers have fought over this orchard every year for the past three yearsa fact that for Bartle makes the war seem absurd and pointless. It takes good writing and a plot that doesnt fizzle out by Page 400 to write a nearly 800-page novel.

But now comes Elizabeth Finch whose magic involves making a short book feel like a long one. Adult males have a bright yellow stripe over their eyes making them look fierce. If they are not its a brilliant satire.

This is ambiguity not as subtlety but avoidance. Hoping to make a virtue of her absence Barnes lays down a fog of negation.

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