![]() ![]() This hymn-sheet-singing is – as just about every broadsheet critic of the book would express it – "extraordinary". It's "dazzlingly imaginative", "marvellously inventive", "intensely inventive". ![]() ![]() It isn't just original, it's "of startling originality" (that from both Jay McInerey and Nicci Gerard writing separately in the Observer). This flood of adjectives reaches its spate in the reviewers' attempts to convey just how fresh and new the book is. My Penguin edition comes with page after page of orgasmic appreciation: a tidal wave of "impressive", "smart", "wildly exuberant", "wonderful", "extraordinarily brilliant", "extraordinarily moving", "achingly heartbreaking", "shocking", "linguistically brilliant", "rambunctious tour de force of inventive intelligent storytelling". Few debuts have been so fulsomely praised as Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. ![]()
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