![]() ![]() Thus Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings was a ‘deserving winner’ of the 2015 Booker Prize Mohsin Ahmed’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is ‘a witty satire on 21st-century gangster capitalism’ and William Gibson has a proven record of writing sci-fi that interprets our real-world maladies. ![]() Like a dentist reassuring their patient before some root canal surgery, Power tends to prelude his more savage moments by endorsing the author’s earlier work. As for the rest, Will Self’s Umbrella is ‘unreadable’, Howard Jacobson’s Zoo Time is ‘unfunny’, and Marilynne Robinson’s Lila contains ‘an awful lot of guessing and an awful lot of God’, with ‘a deadening lack of irony’. We all know this, but we seldom say it.’ What does Kevin Power mean by ‘most’, exactly? Well, of the 21 reviews that stack the back end of The Written World, five or six could qualify as, to a greater or lesser extent, positive. The Written World, Kevin Power, Liliput Press, 2022, 256pp, £13.00 (paperback) ![]()
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