New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature.
Stella Maris , has just been published. While not nearly as bleak as its predecessor, you wouldn't characterizeas bright and uplifting either. The story centers around Bobby Western, a laconic salvage diver based in New Orleans, and his ongoing grief at the loss of his suicidal, schizophrenic sister Alicia.
On a more redeeming note, Austin writer Sarah Bird takes us back to Depression-era Middle America in her enthralling novel. Set primarily in Galveston in the early 1930s, we can't help but get caught up in the aspirations of former child vaudevillian Evie Grace Devlin as she attempts to make something of her life helping others as a nurse only to be caught up in the seedy world of marathon dances.
. The anything-but-flamboyant musician has forged an unquestionably unique sound and flexible style that we've been most fortunate to behold on his regular visits to Austin over the past 30 years.
. A writer of hard-boiled crime fiction himself, Sublett unfolds a well-researched, noir-ish tale of criminality, malfeasance, and corruption in 1970s Austin. It comes replete with a cast of larger-than-life characters and an uncanny sense of a good ol' boy, pre-ATX Austin. He does right by the story's hero, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who in his 30 years on the job would oversee a long overdue progressive and innovative overhaul of the local criminal justice system.
I'm closing out my reading for this year by diving headlong into the gargantuan finale of Buenos Aires-born, Barcelona-based writer Rodrigo Fresán's head-spinning trilogy,, Fresán takes us on a literary free-for-all that blasts through time and space in a virtual stream-of-consciousness phantasmagoria that compels the reader to hold on for dear life.
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