Quincunx

On this basic level, The Quincunx is a barnstorming 19th century novel which just happens to have been written 150 years after its models.

Archive 2007-09-01 Tim Stretton 2007

On this basic level, The Quincunx is a barnstorming 19th century novel which just happens to have been written 150 years after its models.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

Some of my favorites from the past are "The Quincunx", by Charles Palliser, "Instance of the Fingerpost" by Iain Pears, "The Weight of Water" by Anita Shreve, and "The Source" by James Mitchener.

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And this is a problem I had with his The Quincunx of Time when I read it at the end of last year.

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For some books, like The Quincunx, multiple readings are necessary simply to understand the plot (still not sure I do after three goes...); sometimes a second reading illustrates the neatness with which the plot is contrived (why else would you re-read Agatha Christie?)

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

For some books, like The Quincunx, multiple readings are necessary simply to understand the plot (still not sure I do after three goes...); sometimes a second reading illustrates the neatness with which the plot is contrived (why else would you re-read Agatha Christie?)

Archive 2008-09-01 Tim Stretton 2008

The Quincunx succeeds primarily through the sheer compulsion of the plot.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

The mysteries at the heart of The Quincunx are all about identity: not just Johnnie's but most of the characters in the novel.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

What is easy to miss, because Palliser is so at home with the Dickensian model, is that The Quincunx is profoundly informed by 20th century fiction as well.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

The Quincunx follows the extreme fortunes of young Johnnie as he attempts to discover his true identity and recover his lost inheritance.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007