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2 de nov. de 2023 · Blending memoir and history and auto-fiction, this brilliantly unique book by the Booker winner is a treatise on the immeasurability of life. Tara June Winch. Thu 2 Nov 2023 10.00 EDT. Last ...
6 de nov. de 2023 · The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a...
31 de oct. de 2023 · 4.26. 1,504 ratings204 reviews. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild ...
About Question 7. An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan’s father working as a slave ...
3 de mar. de 2024 · Richard Flanagan, Question 7 (#BookReview) March 3, 2024 / whisperinggums. Question 7 is the fifth book by Richard Flanagan that my reading group has done, making him our most read author. That surprised me a little, but he has produced an impressive body of work that is hard to ignore – and, clearly, we haven’t.
Question 7 is Flanagan’s finest book. It is a treatise on the immeasurability of life, reminiscent of the Japanese tradition of mono no aware, the psychological and philosophical sweep of Tolstoy, and enmeshed in a personal essay that is tuned as finely as W. G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn.
1 de dic. de 2023 · In his new book, Question 7 (Knopf Australia), Richard Flanagan is intensely alive to the connection between things. He has always been an author with an eye on cause and effect, on the echoes of history and the endurance of myth and story – and the ways that our lives and choices are never lived in a vacuum.
