April 22, 2008 4:31 pm
As you can see, this is a bit of a tryout. I’ll drop in some of my journalism as I go and shorter comments too.
I have just finished reading David Park’s outstanding novel, The Truth Commissioner and while I rate him a genius in melding the personal and the political I have to take issue with his sex scenes.
I had thought the briefest sex scene in modern Irish literature was Danny Morrison’s in The Wrong Man.
It can be quoted in full: He lay on top of her and she put it in.
But Park’s love scenes don’t happen at all. Couples get into bed and the next paragraph begins: ‘Afterwards …’
For a writer with such an eye for detail this is surely remiss.
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Remiss!
A complete swindle more like!
By Evan Thornton on April 23, 2008 at 12:59 pm
He’s just shy!
By Alan in Belfast on May 7, 2008 at 9:05 am