Light Years

"The book provides a feast for lovers of 'fine' writing and mysteriously profound comments on life and love....What one finds...is a relentlessly poetic prose, an unearned lyricism that envelops the novel like Muzak....In fairness it must be said that, as one reads on, the strained lyricism becomes less intrusive, certain episodes emerge with some sharpness, some poignancy....But chiefly it is the primitive appeal of destinies unfolding in time that carries the reader along, the simple-minded quest for what comes next. This appeal must be admitted and perhaps honored--but with the recognition that it cannot go very far to redeem an overwritten, chi-chi, and rather silly novel."Salter, James is the author of 'Light Years' with ISBN 9780679740735 and ISBN 0679740732.