Book Review For News Of The World

Dry humor morality common sense and a big heart drive this historical novel set in 1870s texas.

Book review for news of the world. In the case of news of the world by paulette jiles heartwarming is exactly the right word. Her new novel the 2016 national book award nominee news of the world has invited comparisons with both. For nearly sixty years philip levine has been praising the famous men and women of the detroit auto industry as well as a wide range of unsung others including relatives jazz musicians adolescent lovers moguls fellow poets martyrs and schoolmates.

The versatile and accomplished mcbride five carat soul 2017 etc returns with a dark urban farce crowded with misjudged signals crippling sorrows and unexpected epiphanies it s september 1969 just after apollo 11 and woodstock. If one does not shed a tear over this lovely story or at least think about it then one has no heart. News of the world is an engaging and enthralling short novel.

The characters are written with such compassion that they will take hold of you as you will take this journey with them through the harshness of the landscape and the dangerous situations they find themselves in until you finish the last page and part company with these two memorable characters. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex news of the world is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family responsibility honor and trust. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.

Set in post civil war texas paulette jiles latest novel news of the world tells the story of 71 year old captain jefferson kyle kidd and his unlikely ward a 10 year old girl rescued by the u s. Only 224 pages long it proves that length and a complex plot are not requirements for memorable and insightful historical fiction. Army from kiowa indian capture.

News of the world by philip levine. Reviewed by chard deniord. Paulette jiles was a poet before she became a novelist.

In a season of such events it s just as improbable that in front of 16 witnesses occupying the crowded plaza of a brooklyn housing project one afternoon a. Chapter one wichita falls texas winter 1870.