Edith Campbell Berry is a fascinating protagonist and the Edith trilogy, of which Cold Light is the last, is a tour de force. The trilogy took 25 years to write and the sweep of history this last volume of the work encompasses (1950 to the Whitlam era) is staggering. Like the other Edith volumes —
This might be how … but I’m still wondering why? Patrick Oxtoby, the central character in M. J. Hyland’s much-lauded novel, makes a terrible mistake that alters the course of his young life. He seems to make the mistake because he can’t express himself and has been in a repressed rage due to his fiancé
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1975 and it’s no mystery why they keep re-issuing it. It’s fabulous! I’m just sorry it’s taken me so long to getting around to feasting on its delights. Dillard spends a year chronicling what she observes each day in the hills of Virginia.
“Where We Must Be” is the standout story of this impressive debut collection. The narrator, Jean, is a struggling actor who dresses up as Bigfoot — scaring paid visitors to a North Carolina nature park. Her boyfriend and neighbour, Jimmy, has given up being a postman after a fatal spot was found on his lungs.
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