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Beautiful, hypnotic, a work of genuine faith.

Finished ‘Another Name’ - beautiful, five stars.

On to Nocilla Experience

A book that creates new possibilities for fiction

About a quarter through and its already more interesting and more ambitious than 'The Road' which I felt marked an endpoint in style and theme. The comparisons to Pynchon that I've seen floating around seem a little wide of the mark: I think the thalidomide kid is Cormac Mccarthy fusing the Shakespearian Jester of Twelfth Night and King Lear with some quintessentially American Tradition of a vaudeville freakshow.

Somehow David Leo Rice's writing has managed to invert the realities of the conscious and unconscious while maintaining the recognisable symbolic structures that guide our understanding of the world. Consequently, there's a harmony that's better than logic to David Leo Rice's narrative and style. The accuracy of the coming of age narrative familiarises the very strange, the family and the desire to create.