But the story teetered toward the sentimental and disparate plot strands dovetailed with a little too much ease. The History of Love was a crowd-pleaser, an elaborate showcase of structural agility that spanned generations and continents and tackled only the biggest themes: love, death, literature. It's the better of the two books, but may well not sell as many copies. Great House is the much-anticipated follow-up to Krauss's internationally bestselling Her prose invokes the melody and cadence of beautiful oration it overwhelms with a sense of continuity and direction, and seems like a definitive example of this elusive concept of voice. Great House, from which it was excerpted), I was struck by a tremendous feeling of lucid vocalization. Yet reading her piece in the magazine (and the striking new novel Some might balk at my desire to include the more traditional lyricist Nicole Krauss in the group.
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