Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Crusaders review in Times Literary Supplement (Sean O'Brien)

‘Richard T. Kelly has written a bold novel, one well worth quarrelling with... The literary ancestry of Kelly’s book seems to lie not so much in the English novel as the French, perhaps in the energetic sprawl of Balzac’s Illusions perdues – that is, in a portrait of a society dominated by parasites, where virtue is a form of weakness... Crusaders examines the failure of goodness...’
Sean O’Brien, Times Literary Supplement
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