Whale Fall
Blunt and exquisite ... Brief but complete, the book is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude ... New and thrilling.
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Lyrical ... Engagingly poetic — though, at times, maddeningly elliptic — the novel interweaves Manod’s canny observations with other villagers’ memories, songs, and folktales ... O’Conner’s spare, incisive prose brings the island to vivid life ... Beguiling and compelling.
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Carefully measured ... O’Connor is so set against the tendency to exoticize remote places that she has made her own writing restrained and somewhat dull, stressing above all the narrowness and banality of Manod’s life.
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