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Long for This World (Hardcover)

by Michael Byers (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books (18 Mar 2004)
  • ISBN-10: 1862076456
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862076457
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,739,258 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘…a big and staggeringly confident book’

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‘Poetically written yet eminently readable, moving but unsentimental...this is a book to make you realise what books should be about’

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5.0 out of 5 stars The saddest disease in the world, 15 April 2005
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This review is from: Long for This World (Paperback)
This is a wonderful novel. It concerns a geneticist, his family, his neighbours and his patients - in particular, one patient. Henry Moss is an expert in "Hickman Syndrome", a fictitious disease but very closely based on the real disease of progeria, in which children age at an accelerated rate and die of old age in their early teens. His favourite patient, William Durbin, aged 14, is close to the end. Moss thinks he may have found a cure, and much of the book concerns his progress to this end.
But there is much more to the novel than a simple will-it-work/won't it thriller. Like all really good novels, it raises questions about the nature of life, of being alive, of our relationships with others. It's written in a transparent, "non-literary" style with hardly a false note throughout its 400-odd pages - I was reminded of William Maxwell at times. Very highly recommended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I could not finish it, 16 Dec 2008
By S. Meghji (Finchley, N12, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long for This World: A Novel (Paperback)
This book started so well. Unfortunately it did not continue in the same way. It tended to jump from one person to another, so that we never get to know anyone well or get any sense of continuity. It contained lot of mundane description of people not central to the book - this had me flipping pages - to find out what is happening. Alas I could not finish and never found out what happened to William!
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