The Emperor of Gladness
A welcome surprise. It is a sweet, charming, conventional novel whose ambition does not outstrip its ability ... What a pleasure to be given characters and a plot! ... The author finally seems to have accepted that prose, unlike poetry, will wither and die without a reader who can actually understand it: At last, he is talking to us.
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He has run out of road ... Deftly portrays drug-ravaged America, but it’s overladen by its sentimental prose
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Vuong’s epic-feeling novel is a determined portrait of community, caretaking, and characters who, if they only have each other, have quite a lot.
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