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The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life.
M. Jennifer Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in Glasgow. She shares a house with Art and Liz, two typical Scotland thirtysomethings, but her life takes a drastic turn with the arrival of her new housemate, an elusive man who glows in the dark and can't remember his name. He soon reveals himself to be none other than Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, the famed writer and duelist of eighteenth-century France, and what unfolds is a love story stark and surreal, tender and humane.
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Chen Tim
reviewed So I Am Glad on July 30, 2007
So I Am Glad
I remember liking this book enough to track down more of A.L. Kennedy's work but I also remember knowing that I did not completely understand what was going on throughout the story. Images from it stick in my head and that is always the true test for me of a book I ultimately look back on with great affection and reverance if not complete adoration. I probably read this in 2002, it is a book I associate with my friend as I think we both read it although I cannot remember if it was her love for it or mine that got us to share it. I can't quite see her really having loved it but until I ask her I wont be sure. Regardless, there was something to the darkness of it that made me recall it today and put it on my list.
I have an association between So I Am Glad , Anagrams by Lorrie Moore and Don DeLillo's brief The Body Artist which accounts for some of part of why Kennedy's novel remains in my thoughts but I think revealing the reason for the association would probably count as a spoiler so I will stop here.
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