For the Time Being by Annie Dillard

Author:Annie Dillard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Essays
ISBN: 0375403809
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1999-02-08T08:00:00+00:00

Book of the Year

There were actually two in my opinion … but I’m only allowed the one so it has to be without question, Love in the Time of Cholera (Cape) by Gabriel García Márquez. He has written the most gloriously heart-wrenching story of love that I have, perhaps, ever read. Gentle, subtle, persuasive and as elegant and fastidious as his heroine, Fermina Daza; as atmospheric and nostalgic as the opening of a long-closed chest redolent of the faded scents of camphor, cedar and lavender.

It haunts, lingers in the mind and in the mind’s eye, long after the covers have been reluctantly closed. A marvel of a book which for me no one has come near to in the whole year – except Molly Keane, with Loving and Giving (Deutsch), which, as a sort of delicious ‘chaser’, is quite the best she has ever written in a long and victorious career. Can’t really leave her out. Not really.

Daily Telegraph, 29 November 1988

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