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Amaryllis Night and DayEditions
Review
“..[I]f reality had a stage door I’d hang around there and see what came out after the show,” says the narrator, and this would do very well as a statement of intention for Hoban himself. Again, “Trust me, I’m a weirdo,” says Amaryllis… We are in Hoban country. The narrator of this novel is fascinated by Klein bottles because they go in and out of themselves: it is then no surprise to find that Amaryllis finds him suitable for “pulling in” to her dream (on board a paper bus going to Finsey-Obay). Their relationship proceeds partly in real time and partly in dreamtime. Hoban makes his strange scenarios and characters work by sustaining a very robust sense of the ordinary in parallel: his prose is straightforward, his humour always alert and rather cosy, and however odd a person is one moment, they are likely to be doing something very ordinary the next. He is always interesting and entertaining. - review by Johnny de Falbe |
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John Sandoe [Books] Ltd |
For anyone who is already a Hoban aficionado, it will be enough to know hat there is a new novel for them to rush out and buy it without preamble. I might try to win over new readers by stating that this is a charming and subtle love story, often very funny, written in nice short chapters, set in London… All of which is true, but it does not begin to give the flavour of a Russell Hoban book.
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