The Last Crossing
I was delighted to again be part of the selection process for this year's One Book Montana: Guy Vanderhaeghe’s "The Last Crossing."
Our discussion was actually easier than it had been in past years, because the committee's membership was unchanged, so we could pick up where we left off. "The Last Crossing" had been previously nominated, and in the interim more of us had had a chance to read it. I believe it was a unanimous choice.
"The Last Crossing" is a big, rich, old-fashioned novel, with lots of varying themes and settings. So different people will like different things about it. My own take, as I wrote here, was that Vanderhaeghe reintroduced me to "the novelist's gift[:] to see key struggles of our own time in fully-realized other worlds."
I'm always interested in feedback, via info at johnclaytonbooks dot com
Our discussion was actually easier than it had been in past years, because the committee's membership was unchanged, so we could pick up where we left off. "The Last Crossing" had been previously nominated, and in the interim more of us had had a chance to read it. I believe it was a unanimous choice.
"The Last Crossing" is a big, rich, old-fashioned novel, with lots of varying themes and settings. So different people will like different things about it. My own take, as I wrote here, was that Vanderhaeghe reintroduced me to "the novelist's gift[:] to see key struggles of our own time in fully-realized other worlds."
I'm always interested in feedback, via info at johnclaytonbooks dot com
