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you are the most important character while everyone is but a forgotten footnote
the two men battle for supremacy in pursuit of an empire
there is nothing more human than to fail - and nothing wiser and more necessary than to learn to fail well
But is it a truth he really wants
Joan Silber: Ideas of Heaven [2022] paperback GREEN File Under: Fantasy [ FreshSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Set in modern day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the next, until the last is tied convincingly to the first. Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, they are about
