The Great Trotter Resurrection | Books
The narrator tells the Trotter family nama through layers of generational history, bits of verse, scraps of journals and recipes.
by Sonal Shah
Nov 15, 2019
2 minutes
It's hard to imagine that the author of a book as gargantuan, complex and exuberant as ever suffered such a crisis of faith in his creation-which had been out of print for an extended period-that he took the 600-plus page manuscript and stuffed it into a pot-belly stove on a winter evening in Sydney. "It was a dark night of the soul and the smuts hung in the air of
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