Reading it, you may feel as Lurie does: "I had somehow wanted my way into a marvel that had never before befallen this world." Inland is a place of killers, camels, families and phantoms. And the novel feels sanitized … when you’re under its spell the objections seem beside the point ….
The bedtime-story elements can become twee and caricatured …. Obreht has the extraordinary ability to … a fully immersive imaginary world governed by its own logic …. unfolds like a dream… a smoky borderland between …reality and fantasy, the living and the dead, textbook history and fairy tales. In Obreht's hands, this is an era that overflows with what the dead want, and with wants that lead to death.Ĭhanelle Benz - New York Times Book Review Obreht's simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West's beauty and sudden menace.… Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions…. He landscape of the West itself is a character, thrillingly rendered throughout…. I realize I am being terribly hard on Obreht’s novel, but… he many readers who will enjoy Inland and put it on best-seller lists can send an old curse in my direction.
More common are observations and dialogue that are as softly didactic as refrigerator magnet slogans…. Let me pause to say: Obreht has real gifts as a storyteller… all the drama feels fake, as if someone is backstage shaking a thunder sheet….
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