Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
This year I’ve been into reading Russians: Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamasov. I put off reading these books for years due to their length. However, once I got into them I found the writing compelling and smooth (apparently they translate well) and easy to read. I’ve only found one author writing in English who approaches their efforless prose on a grand scale and he is Canadian–Robertson Davies.
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Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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Wendy Duncan, 7 years ago
Funny, me too! The hardest part was the names – all the variations. MY solution was the web – I looked up the list of names in the books … and then I could navigate more easily when I read. My favorite was The Brothers Karamazov.