“Was he a strong person? He didn’t know.” This novel is ostensibly 1750 pages long, at least if you go by the basic page count. But don’t worry! It’s actually only 1200 pages, plus another 500 pages of partial and abandoned material, so it’s not that bad! The novel is great, but exhausting as you can imagine. The biggest exhausting element about it is that it’s not remotely cohesive or consistent. There’s numerous narrative threads and there’s sections of cohesion, but for the most part […]