Tear in the Curtain
Tessa Hadley: Deborah Eisenberg, 17 August 2006
Twilight of the Superheroes
by Deborah Eisenberg.
Picador, 225 pp., £14.99, July 2006,9780330444590 Show More
by Deborah Eisenberg.
Picador, 225 pp., £14.99, July 2006,
“... Words at first fail us, when events are too extreme to be caught in subtle nets. Literary language reaches for outrage and finds hollowed-out forms; straining to be adequate to horror, it is all too easy to sound schmaltzy, or sanctimonious, or quivery with frisson. So the title story of Deborah Eisenberg’s new collection approaches its subject with reticence ... ”