June 03, 2002

How To Be Good, Nick Hornby

Another novel about a writer's midlife marital crisis (see The Beauty of the Husband), but written from the spouse's point of view, not the writer's. Much interesting stuff lightly handled; division of roles in a marriage, difficulty of switching, thought vs. feeling, Faith vs. Works, and how to be good. I also like the writing, which is light but not plain: echoes of Coleridge and Woolf used for meaning as well as sound. So wrote clew in Fiction (20th c.).
And thus wrote others:
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