Reflections of a working writer and reader
Grammar and Style. To me they seem to have become as irrelevant as a Victorian bathing suit or the imperturbability of a true gentleman. A mask. Let us hope the time will come...when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused. As we cannot eliminate language all at once, we should at least leave nothing undone that might contribute to its falling into disrepute. To bore one hole after another in it, until what lurks behind it-be it something or nothing-begins to seep through; I cannot imagine a higher goal for a writer today. Samuel Beckett
Published in April 2009, this is a standalone novel based mainly in Montevideo.
Winged with Death is a fine novel, and if it is intended to be a genre mystery story, it fails. Because this is pure high quality literary fiction, with the best instincts of story-telling on display. It is beautifully written, clearly the hand of a writer in full command of his craft. Donigan Merritt, novelist.
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