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On Such a Full Sea

February 4, 2014

on such a full sea

People often write of singers or actors with such amazing voices it would be a pleasure to listen to them read the phone book. For the written word Chang-rae Lee is such a person. His words and the way he melds sentences are all so quietly beautiful the plot is secondary. He has a voice of astonishing grace and range. This is not to say that his newest novel, On Such a Full ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, dystopia, Riverhead Books, science fiction

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