“I'm going to have to echo the 'difficult' comments. It isn't just the fractured narrative that makes the book more challenging than most, it's the (presumably accurate) Southern vernacular. I suspect it wouldn't have been easy for the average American reader to understand back in 1930, let alone a British reader nearly 80 years later. That said, it's a beautiful book and one of my favourites.”
posted Friday, April 25 2008