One of the nicer moments at BEA was our conversation with Frederick Reuss about our shared love for John Berger, who recently gave a blurb to Reuss' novel Mohr (Unbridled Books). He's agreed to do an upcoming 3MI, so we're right chuffed to see this glowing review by the ever-insightful Richard Eder in today's New York Times.
In "Mohr," Frederick Reuss's painful and beautiful novel, there is, among much else, a touch of similarly sardonic wit. It is grit to the delicately modulated story, set in the mid-1930's, of a restless air-spirit — a Luftmensch, as the Germans put it — and the wife and little daughter who live in the Luft's exhaust.
There's a terrific review from the San Francisco Chronical today, too at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/26/DDG5HJ1RU91.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
Posted by: Akwe Amosu | May 26, 2006 at 12:50 PM