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Loading... If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (edition 2003)by Jon McGregor
Work InformationIf Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  piemouth | Sep 2, 2021 |    ) resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 | There is a young woman at the center of the story, and I did come to care a bit more about what happens to her as a result of the incident that affects everyone in the area. However, we don't get to know most of the characters by name. It's as if this could be any neighborhood, any time. A bit of an adventure in writing and reading, and a way to appreciate what is both remarkable and what is not. (  ) slojudy | Sep 8, 2020 | KatrinkaV | Dec 2, 2018 |  )1  SadieBabie | Jun 23, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
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'This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of the city, is strongly reminiscent of Auden's Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society... An assured debut' Erica Wagner, The Times. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows... A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for ever. Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS is an astonishing debut. 'The work of a burning new talent ... Jon MacGregor writes like a lyrical angel' Daily Mail No library descriptions found. |
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It's an interesting structure that created great tension, both what's going to happen to this girl and what happened that day? We know it isn't something good. I don't usually care about language and rarely am touched by poetic descriptions, but I liked the way he talked about the city and its sounds.
I liked it a lot although I really disliked the girl at the center of the story. The twist I thought was coming... well, I was wrong about that, and I was kind of disappointed with the ending only because it seemed pretty unlikely. But there was an inevitability about it that I respect. (