Asesinato Y Ánimas En Pena (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

I marvel at what a great wordsmith Robertson Davies was. It isn't often that I have to resort to a dictionary to look up a word but I had to with this passage: Commodes, chastely concealing a chamber-pot for use in a lady's bedroom, might have quite a Gothic air about them, so that the infrequent...

from laytonwoman3rd

The novel begins with the death of its narrator, Connor Gilmartin, who walks in on his wife and her lover, and gets coshed with a weighted walking stick for his indiscretion. Adding insult to injury, the lover was a newspaper colleague Gil contemptuously referred to as "the Sniffer", a man seemin...

from literarytiger

This is an interesting book which promises one thing on the back cover but actually delivers something quite different. I had expected a humorous take from a murdered man (Gil) who is forced to spend the afterlife with his murderer at a film festival, but what we get is a rambling history of Gil'...

from yooperprof

Platitudinous. I had a hard time finishing this one. This was the next to last novel Davies published - he was 78 when it came out, in 1991. Unfortunately, I think that may have something to do with the "gassiness" of much of the writing here.

from yooperprof

Platitudinous. I had a hard time finishing this one. This was the next to last novel Davies published - he was 78 when it came out, in 1991. Unfortunately, I think that may have something to do with the "gassiness" of much of the writing here.