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Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, Dara Horn's novel seamlessly weaves its deeper preoccupations into a narrative thoroughly absorbing and satisfying.
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The novel unfolds intriguingly nonetheless, as Horn's protagonist wades deeper and deeper into the murky waters where the conflicting obligations of country, family and self threaten to consume him.
All Other Nights: Summary and book reviews of All Other Nights by Dara Horn. 2009
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In invoking the "world to come," Horn's novel is, of course, endeavoring to capture something essential about this world, about our longings and frustrations, but it is impossible to read such passages as the one quoted above without thinking that this is at odds with its very prosaic language and method of character creation, which do depend on customary "props."
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Along the way you'll world-class sculpture on a grand scale, from Frank Gehry's Fish to Rebecca Horn's Wounded Star, along with volleyball, beach-side dominoes, water sports, the Biblioplatja "beach library", where you can borrow books in English and beach toys for kids, climbing frames, exercise circuits and every manner of itinerant hawker.
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Gagosian Britannia Street, WC1, to 22 OctSkye SherwinRoni Horn's work is famous for its austerity.
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The result is entertaining enough, at least when I am able to ignore the listless "sentence rhythms" created by Horn's adherence to the central consciousness-style of narrative exposition.
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Dara Horn's The World to Come begins with these two paragraphs:
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These are Dara Horn's efforts to embody a "full creative effort of imagination."
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No doubt this seems thoroughly unexceptional to most readers of fiction (which is actually one of the problems with Horn's novel), an expository passage that begins to acquaint us with the themes the book will explore and introduces us to the character whose present actions and experiences provide the hinge by which the rest of the novel moves.
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Along the way you'll world-class sculpture on a grand scale, from Frank Gehry's Fish to Rebecca Horn's Wounded Star, along with volleyball, beach-side dominoes, water sports, the Biblioplatja "beach library", where you can borrow books in English and beach toys for kids, climbing frames, exercise circuits and every manner of itinerant hawker.
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