Twilight Language

by Roderick S. Bucknell

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Genres: Buddhism

231 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 1995

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not gonna lie, The Twilight Language is one of those books where I kept pausing just to say "wow" out loud. Roderick S. Bucknell follows a long-haul trucker writing letters to a daughter he barely knows, and the letter about eating pie alone at a truck stop on her birthday gutted me. The structure gets repetitive, since every chapter is basically another letter. Who this is for: readers who like quiet, emotional stories told in small pieces. Who should pass: anybody hoping for action or twists.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Twilight Language hits you right in the gut because Roderick S. Bucknell shows how quickly human solidarity breaks down when survival incentives are manipulated from above.