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Arctic summer by damon galgut5/21/2023 * Daily Mail * Galgut has so seamlessly incorporated Forster's diaries, letters and novels into his narrative that it is often hard to tell which novelist is which. * Mail on Sunday * A masterly piece of fiction. * Sunday Business Post * A beautifully imagined piece, getting deep inside the mind of a major English novelist. * The Herald (Scotland) * Galgut's gifts - of phrasing, of structure, of perception - are on faultless form in these pages. * Books of the Year, Daily Mail * Preoccupied by varieties of sadness - but is so crisply written, with a deceptive simplicity and directness, that it feels full of affirmations - Summer picks * Guardian * How apt that Arctic Summer, a chronicle of a writer's longest journey to complete his masterpiece, also happens to be Galgut's finest book to date. Forster springs four-square from the page. * The Economist, Books of the Year * His plight is beautifully captured by Damon Galgut in this plangent novel, rich in period detail. Forster, one of Britain's most thoughtful novelists. * Observer * With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Damon Galgut has written a beautiful and funny book that movingly captures the duality of E.M. Perfectly judged and sensitively written novel * Scotland on Sunday * A compelling account of Forster's writing and of his sexual preoccupations and longings.
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