William Rohner’s Reviews > Homesickness > Status Update

Colin Barrett's writing is remarkable. Even his occasional descriptions of scenery are very cool and fun to read -- simple, vivid, and original. For example, there's this sentence (from "Whoever Is There, Come On Through") where two characters are walking by a river: "To their right coursed the Moy, dark as stout and in murderous spate; to their left high conifers stood like rows of coats on coat racks."