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• "Grainne" by Keith Roberts is a wonderful glimpse at life's possibilities

  "Grainne" by Keith Roberts is a wonderful glimpse at life's possibilities. Roberts is a master story teller. He has a way of creating alternate histories that bring the fundamental truths of the human condition direct to your brainpan. The book opens with an old man lying in a hospital bed. A physician is asking him questions. Sometimes the patient answers, sometimes his alter-ego does the honors. The reader gets a slices of life from the patient's memories. Each of these is well-crafted with excellent detail selection, so that complex moods are created in as little as two sentences. The reader learns of his childhood, his relationships with Mother and Father, his schooling, his pursuit of a career in the arts. Then he meets Grainne, an extraordinary Celtic woman who guides him to adulthood, inspires his career as an ad-man and author. I find it impossible to describe the marvelous insights you will find in this novel. I can only urge you to do so. "Grainne" is one of the major fictional works of the 20th-century.

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