6/11/2023 0 Comments Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy![]() Sandman is lies and the truth they are meant to conceal. The deliberately mundane takes on magical qualities. Her luminous, deceptively conversational style shuffles time frames and points of view so smoothly that her intricate narrative flows in molten simplicity. ![]() Gowdy's humor dwells not in one-liners, but in acute variations of tone and attitude. Sandman, her third novel, cocks a snoot at conventions, both moral and literary, and is so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes jubilant sinners of us all. Canadian Barbara Gowdy insolently explodes such constipated pretensions. ![]() ![]() Some puritanical streak in many of us insists that art must be medicinal, glumly virtuous and difficult to swallow. ![]()
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