![]() ![]() Some may find its bountiful overflows confusing or unnecessary I found them mostly captivating. This is a book with respect for neither the margins of the page nor those that confine us in the real world. runs over with philosophy, psychology, politics, literature, family sagas, food, beauty, style, history, geography. Amid all this is a lot of sex - all of it meaningful in Donaldson’s hands. These toggles aren’t merely fancy jump cuts the stories and eras blur together like overlaid transparencies. If Donaldson did nothing else in this novel but tell Kip’s story, his sensitive investigation into isolation would make it notable.Yet Donaldson is after something larger than literary New York’s blind spots. Ostensibly about a young queer man in Manhattan, Greenland is also a novel of identity and place, but it is less about claiming one’s own territory than deciding who gets to come inside. not since Iris Murdoch’s The Philosopher’s Pupil have I read a novel crammed full of so many ideas and tropes that they threaten to spill out of its margins. ![]()
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