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☆ Music Could Be His Living, but Life Keeps Getting in the Way
  + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( John Self | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
SMALL WORLDS, by Caleb Azumah NelsonCaleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel, “Open Water” (2021), was rightly praised for its poetic take on young Black love in contemporary England. It also refreshed this weary reader by bucking the trend among young writers for affectless prose reflecting a passive narrator. Azumah Nelson’s second novel, “Small Worlds,” is longer, looser and less successful. The narrator, Stephen, a young Black Englishman whose parents came to London from Ghana, is not passive, but not exactly an action man either. There’s a languid quality to his life as he ambles around Peckham, a South London neighborhood that was once down at heel and is now up-and-coming.
Persons: Caleb Azumah Nelson Caleb Azumah Nelson’s, Azumah, Stephen, Stephen doesn’t, Mark Duggan Locations: England, London, Ghana, Peckham, South London
☆ A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( The New York Times Books Staff | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Many readers consider this the best of Amis’s early novels. He’s a lout, he’s a slob, he’s a mess — and he is enormously fine company on the page. “The book’s dash and heft and twang serve a deeper energy," our reviewer, Veronica Geng, wrote. Our reviewer, Bette Pesetsky, called “London Fields” “a picaresque novel rich in its effects,” a “virtuoso depiction of a wild and lustful society. Friendly, readers learn, is the latest of the man’s pseudonyms: Years earlier, he was a Nazi doctor who escaped Europe for the United States.
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