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Too little interest, much too late to save debut novel
www.winnipegfreepress.com
[Winnipeg Free Press] - Absolution By Patrick Flanery Knopf Canada, 385 pages, $30 MEETING a famous writer isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Such is the case for Sam Laroux, one of the protagonists in this tepid debut novel. Set in in post-apartheid South Africa
Absolution, By Patrick Flanery
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Patrick Flanery's debut novel constructs a mosaic of contemporary South Africa: a country where ugly human crime, past and present, jars against natural beauty, and as powerfully depicted here as in any book by JM Coetzee or Damon Galgut.
Guardian: Absolution by Patrick Flanery - review
[The Guardian] - Absolution, the first novel by Patrick Flanery, is likely to disturb anyone with settled views on South Africa. In part a literary detective story, it is a deeply unsentimental portrait of a society where freedom came recently and a lot of people are
Guardian: Tips, links and suggestions: What you are reading?
[The Guardian (blog)] - The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker • Stories of Motherhood - Everyman Pocket Classics • Absolution by Patrick Flanery • The Man Who Forgot his Wife by John O'Farrell • The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones • The Cove by Ron Rash • The Bellwether Revivals by
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