In the Breeze of Passing Things: A Novel

By Noley Reid

Ten-year-old Iva Giles believes her father is lost. His checks, which once arrived every week, become sporadically-mailed wadded dollar bills, then simply stop coming altogether. She lives with her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931561427
• ISBN13: 9781931561426
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

exuberance is beauty

In a time when dull, drab, journalistic prose and cardboard, 2-dimensional, political ideogrammatic characters are the norm in american fiction it is always refreshing to hear a voice of urgent humanity; a voice rich with feeling. I have heard people call this book juvinille in content, as if it should be put in the young adult section of the bookstore but such a viewpoint is a little naive. This book is still fiction, fiction written by a 30+ year old, college professor, and not a adolescent girl. With that in mind one may be able to view and value this novel more accurately. It is incredibly intense and yet hushed. It is dreamily lyrical and yet crisp in its details. It rushes along with a breezy energy and yet it is certainly not another piece of plotless post-modern refuse. I'd call it poetic if I didn't consider doing so an insult to what prose is truly capable of when in the hands of a great writer. In terms of her level of talent and origionality of voice I'd go so far as to compare her to Murdoch, Nabokov, Anthony Burgess (though in specific terms she hardly resembles any of the above). Novelists, stylists, storytellers like Nicole Louise Reid only come around so often. Buy this book if you know what's good for you.