Reading with No Clothes on
Michael Hofmann: Guernsey’s Bard, 24 January 2008
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
by G.B. Edwards.
NYRB, 400 pp., £10.99, July 2007,978 1 59017 233 9 Show More
by G.B. Edwards.
NYRB, 400 pp., £10.99, July 2007,
“... With the slush pile now going the way of the ice-cap, G.B. Edwards’s miraculous novel The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is one more instance – beyond the usually trotted out Lord of the Flies by William Golding, who was an admirer – of why that might be a pity, and why, ice-caps permitting, we might come to regret it ... ”
