![]() There is a lot about honour and care here: about what it means to honour and care for both ourselves and those we love. my two days of reading the book felt less like a reading experience than a life experience: two days of terror and loss. As in Faulkner, each of the voices emerges from somewhere between speech, thought and writing, but here the characters are articulate enough that we can believe that the words are theirs. ![]() Haslett has a great gift for capturing the strikingly different inner worlds of his characters and rendering them in beautiful prose. But there is still a contemporary social critique at work: notably of the pharmaceutical industry and the frightening debts doctors allow vulnerable patients to incur. There seem to be conscious shades of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, as the narrative is told by alternating members of the family who even narrate their own deaths. ![]() Imagine Me Gone makes the elemental American landscapes of the previous novel the setting for a more classical tale of family struggle. ![]()
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