6/30/2023 0 Comments Great circle a novel![]() ![]() this far-ranging breadth is as much the project of this novel as any of these individual lives - including all the ways each life exists within the context of so many others, the way the natural world informs and forms us, all the ways we are still only and particularly ourselves. This is a book explicitly invested in sweep. Great Circle can sometimes feel a bit baggy, but that seems to be Shipstead’s intention. ![]() ![]() But Great Circle starts high and maintains altitude. The start of Shipstead’s book is thrilling and complicated, with many different threads laid out and back stories carefully and richly wrought for the next 500-odd pages, I felt the fear I feel when a student’s work starts strong, when other novels open high - knowing that, more often than not, lofty heights can’t be sustained. ![]()
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