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The Story of The Night - Spot Reviews
The Times
Masterly prose....Tóibín has become a leading figure of European
literature.(London)
Kirkus Reviews
A memorably hard-headed, well paced and plotted reverie on loss.
(04/01/1997)
Independent on Sunday
Tóibín is deft at conjuring vague images of potential menace....The
descriptions of Buenos Aires pavement life at night are often brilliant.
Tóibín's is an explosively emotional subject, and we cannot fail to be
shocked and moved by it.
(London)
Literary Review
Tóibín's clear, straightforward prose is impressive. He never overwrites.
...I have the highest praise for this novel.
(October 1996)
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New York Times Book Review
Art keeps searching for what resolution or catharsis is possible in works
dealing with mass murder and, more recently, with the devastaion of AIDS. t
But in making myth or metaphor of this disease--perhaps not so unlike a
silenced history of murder--we must inevitably and directly address the
reality of mass death. Tóibín's novel comes up against this daunting truth.
Like so many stories in the age of AIDS, THE STORY OF THE NIGHT suddenly
stops rather than ends.
(06/22/1997)
Washington Post Book World
A fine novel, remarkable for the purity of its ambitions, amounting almost
to selflessness, and for the most fear and pity it arouses; for its unwise
and tempted protagonist; and for all those who are victims of a historical
circumstance.
(05/18/1997)
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