![]() ![]() ![]() Themes: War, trauma and ultimately resolution reflect the narrative of contemporary Europe. Writing Man is the perfect Bloomsday Centenary read with a modernist jacket design featuring floral depictions set into an art deco snapshot of The Eiffel Tower, Paris, a subtle nod to the city which first published James Joyce’s modernist classic one hundred years to the day that The Leopold Bloom Press opened its doors on Grafton Street in Feb 2022. Sequestered away in a remote castle somewhere outside Düsseldorf, the truth of his famous novels origin looks set to remain hidden, until a former Nazi soldier recalls a prisoner, a girl who scribed a captivating odyssey in a WW2 death camp a story identical to Tobias Pilferhoff’s world-famous novel, The Scent of Heaven. In a world captivated by a story he never wrote, Europe’s most celebrated and reclusive novelist lives a life of privilege. There is only one small problem despite his posturing, he has by the age of thirty still not yet produced his awaited great novel. Flannery is a fully realized and nuanced protagonist, contradictory in all the most consistent ways. Lisa Moore, in her smart and harrowing YA novel Flannery, examines how much work and perseverance it can take to love and to be loved in return. ![]() Tobias Pilferhoff looks, dresses, and acts the part of the quintessential writer. And, as Buried In Print says in her review, if Lisa Moore’s Flannery is the first in a string of YA novels, I will be spending more time reading in that department. ![]()
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