PositiveBookforumGreenwell thinks like a poet; his novels think like poems think. He lingers in contradiction, oscillates between negation and assertion, asks questions, fails to make up his mind ... One man’s reflections on a life lived and not lived, with his partner and in solitude, on poetry and music. All the rest, it turns out, is backdrop; it’s there so we can see what’s before us more clearly ...Tthere is more faith, in this prose, in the redemptive power of art-as-attention; and less concern that, in seeking refuge from the world, one misses anything.
