Atchley

the long version

From Library Journal In the tradition of Nabokov's Pale Fire, Green has written a book entwining fiction and commentary. Green sees language as an endless Mobius strip, and he would like to record all the words spoken in a lifetime the way Borges wrote of tracing footsteps of a lifetime. In the critical introduction, letters, diary, and novella included here, he reworks in different styles these same metaphysical speculations. His deceptively beautiful novella, "Landfall," which he comments on elsewhere in the book, is a lushly written story of a shipwrecked man in a Spain of the imagination that fans of Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom will enjoy. Great intellectual fun; recommended for large contemporary literature collections.AGene Shaw, NYPL