I just started reading Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World today. Got a fair ways through it, though. It's a post-apocalyptic novel, although the nature of the apocalypse is hard to define. Main characters are specialized truckers.
I'd characterize the prose as being very dense. The narrator, while not finding the time to introduce himself by name, is really chatty. This is not really the approach I'd take, but it has its moments.
This is Harkaway's first book, but it's got some high-profile cover blurbs (e.g. Len Deighton, Russell Hoban). Does that have anything to do with him being the son of John Le Carré? It just might.
I'd characterize the prose as being very dense. The narrator, while not finding the time to introduce himself by name, is really chatty. This is not really the approach I'd take, but it has its moments.
This is Harkaway's first book, but it's got some high-profile cover blurbs (e.g. Len Deighton, Russell Hoban). Does that have anything to do with him being the son of John Le Carré? It just might.
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Hmm, first Steven King's son and now John Le Carré's offspring? Let's hope nobody ever shows J.K. Rowling's kids a word processor. The mind boggles.
Rowling has three kids, so it's possible. I wouldn't envy them, though, if they started writing for publication. I mean, if it wasn't about a wizarding school, everyone would keep asking them where the wizard kids are.
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