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That people might be made whole by what they are denied—a paradox to start with, it runs wholly counter to the logic of the times. But what else describes a sacred man’s job? His renunciations can’t be ours, but they can cast our own worldliness in an importantly compromised light.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Times Stephen Metcalf New York Times 2007
David is prim and reckless. He is achingly camp—at one point he is in danger of serving a cheeseboard which is “too recherché” for his guests.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Guardian Hilary Mantel The Guardian 2006

O’Hagan’s strategy—his use of David as the unreliable first-person narrator—is all the more successful for the degree of risk involved. With the exception, of course, of his conversations with others, we see David’s world only through his own eyes, willfully blind though they often are.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Claire Messud New York Review of Books 2007