![]() ![]() Second, and you may have read this elsewhere too, Crossroads feels warmer than his previous novels. ![]() Which lets you know that this is a book that has reach (if we take it as read that the trilogy will centre upon the same family rather than being one of those jinxy trilogies which are basically three separate books loosely thematically linked). Edward Casaubon dedicates several decades of his life in the George Eliot novel). Before you get all finger snappy a la Ariane Grande and say, next, however, this one is a little different.įor one thing, as you probably already know, it’s the first part of a trilogy (subtitled – although the subtitle is nowhere in evidence in my proof copy of Crossroads – A Key to All Mythologies, in a knowing wink to Middlemarch – The Key to All Mythologies being the name of the work of theological scholarship to which the 45-year-old Rev. ![]() Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel is, you’ll no doubt be surprised to learn, about a family – family, as we’ve said in previous Jonathan Franzen reviews, being Franzen’s big subject. ![]()
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