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Eleanor Catton follows a messy, Booker-winning novel with a tidy thriller. That's a shame

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment March 03, 2023

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Neatness will kill a novel — throttle it and slowly snuff the life out of it. You know the markers: the quaintly named characters whose destinies match their monikers, the hammer-to-the-head foreshadowing, the dreaded deus ex machina. The literary thriller may borrow a few genre tropes, but in fact it is the perfect place to abandon such stodgy tools, to screw with conventions of morality and political ideology, to swirl together the various... + full article



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