The first, and early, novel by the writer John Williams who would go on to write three very good books, two of them masterpieces. Because of Hoopla, I have access to the newly made (thanks to the republishing of his novel Stoner) audiobook editions of all his works, which I will likely be revisiting presently. This early novel is something different altogether. While there are stretches of his epistolary novel Augustus that are contemplative and reflective, there’s nothing quite this intimate or personal or claustrophobic in any […]
In this dream, where he was weightless and unalive, where he was a pervading mist of consciousness that seethed and trembled in a vast stretch of dark, there was at first no feeling…
Nothing but the Night by John Williams