wrul (pre‐2023) reviewed Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
crumbly for recitation, dulled contours
3 stars
Many of these are crumbly sentences better suited to recitation, being shored into sense through practiced emphasis or author’s own knowledge, than to quick reading at a remove. (Not exactly a complaint).
The text in general is repetitive, making the big anxiety‐dulled plot pivots all the more frustratingly redundant to trace up close, as they each gouge the same contour.
But can Raynor Winn describe a sky!
[Boonwurrung Country, 2 January 2022]