Completed: 6/20/2024
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody, but I did enjoy The Magician so when I saw that Tóibín had released a new book, Long Island, I took note. Of course, then I found out that it was a sequel to this book!
Review:
I read this book knowing that there was a sequel and I think it affected my perspective. The writing was fabulous and the growth of the protagonist going out on her own and experiencing a whole new world (with all of its angst and all of its possibilities) was richly detailed. I was struck by how her adventures (and misadventures) were handled and I think that as I neared the end of the book my approach to the book's conclusion would have been much different had I not known that another book was to come. Regardless, I felt unfulfilled (which, surely, many others must have as well) by the conclusion and I ticked it off mentally without thinking that there was a book to follow. Surely, the author had not intended to write another as he concluded this book. Or, if he did, he certainly took his sweet time. All the same, I can recommend the book with a clear conscious because he did, indeed, write a second book.
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