Books on Monday: The Great Man
Kate Christensen’s fourth novel is, in my opinion, her best to date. It’s good to have gotten round to writing one up! In the Drink came out before I had a Web site, and Jeremy Thrane before I had a Web log. I don’t know what happened with The Epicure’s Complaint, but I remember finding it puzzling, as though something were going on beneath the straightforward-seeming surface. No such confusion clouded my reading of The Great Man. I was reminded, for what it’s worth, of Diane Johnson, Brian Morton, and even, a bit, Alice Adams. A great New York read.