Branwell goes to Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Rail reviews the novel Branwell by Douglas Martin. It's amazing how this novel slowly advances on and on. It didn't get a whole lot of reviews at the beginning but - unlike others that do - it stays on the surface all the time. You can never forget about it since there's always someone reviewing it. Nice.

Branwell is not a history, relating an objective chain of events, nor in any sense a biography, attempting to shed light on its subject. Instead, it invites the reader to join Douglas Martin in his dream of Branwell Brontë—a dream so enchantingly and hypnotically rendered that the invitation is a pleasure to accept.

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