The BURIED Book Club discussion

I too own Winter's Journal and A Singular Man. I should get on those...

Great writer, although I can't seem to get into his other books... I started several but only finished My Friends and Winter's Journal.

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I don't know why I'm so happy about this news... I have about 10 Boves on my bookshelf that I have yet to read ;) But I don't care, I'm still silly happy

I just read the previously unreviewed A Singular Man. Great book. Definitely reminded me a bit of Walser, especially The Assistant. Glad to hear it seems he's poised for a revival.

Yay!

I just finished reading A Man Who Knows and wouldn't recommend it unless you are a diehard Bove fan. Northwestern University Press, which published a paperback edition, says, "The last of Bove's major novels, A Man Who Knows is the most mature example of his celebrated style." Perhaps he is one of those writers who reach their pinnacle prior to 'maturity'.

Corvid wrote: "I just finished reading A Man Who Knows and wouldn't recommend it unless you are a diehard Bove fan. Northwestern University Press, which published a paperback edition, says, "The last of Bove's ma..."

Sorry to hear that...

Yeah. It wasn't terrible, just nowhere near as good as the others I've read. I still have this one at home that I'm more optimistic about.

Ooh didn't know that one was out there, thanks!

Thanks, I didn't know about that one either. I thought I had all the Bove, but I guess I was missing some.

NYRB are also planning to release a new translation of My Friends. And Red Dust Press put out this: A Raskolnikoff

I read A Raskolnikoff and would recommend it to Bove fans, although it's extremely short, barely what one thinks of as standard novella length. It's basically a Bove cocktail with a Dostoevskian twist.