Twist
Told with McCann’s incomparable prose ... As a reader I am torn. I wish it didn’t need the Conrad skeleton at all. McCann has written a beautiful novel set in, and off the coast, of Africa — something few writers with his privilege and prestige have done ... Gorgeously written and sad and inspiring, a destination hard to imagine from the journey’s start.
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Aa transcontinental fiber-optic cable that carries the great world’s messages, news, images, voices and ideas at the speed of light ... Plenty of genuinely gorgeous passages about the way people are translated into dots of light in our information-based economy ... But wonderful moments like that are continually diluted by passages of purple pomposity.
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Feels narratively disheveled, with subplots warmed up and abandoned, and loose threads dangling as they do everywhere in life. But the parts are not the sum. McCann...clearly knows what he’s up to...and through various authorial wiles he has produced a work at once enigmatic and urgent ... And what are we to make of the whole? McCann’s ingenious tale within a tale.
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