Ron Slate's blog
August 2nd, 2010
on 03, a novella by Jean-Christophe Valtat, trans. from the French by Mitzi Angel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The narrator of 03, now in his mid-40’s, begins by recalling the moment he spotted a “slightly retarded” girl (“it was harder to guess her age”) waiting at a bus stop in the dispiriting town of Montpérilleux. He was 18.
July 28th, 2010
on The Pages, a novel by Murray Bail (Other Press)
Murray Bail’s beguiling fourth novel, The Pages, begins with Erica Hazelhurst, a 46-year old professor of philosophy, and Sophie Perloff, a 43-year old psychiatrist, driving from Sydney to a remote sheep farm in New South Wales.
