otrops reviewed A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Review of 'A Horse Walks into a Bar' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
There are books that drake your breath away. Books that leave you on the verge of tears, holding your breath, wondering what will happen to these people you've suddenly gotten to know so intimately.
For me, this is one of those books.
I read it slowly, despite its slim profile. I read slowly because I didn't want it to end. I read slowly because I didn't want to continue.
But I kept coming back. I had to find out what happened to these people.
This was also a personal book for me. The journey taken in this book was similar to a journey I had taken myself. A journey into the unknown while feverishly trying to unravel the reason for taking the journey in the first place.
Three people are brought together not quite by chance to explore their pasts and decide on their futures.
This triangle is delicately balanced; …
There are books that drake your breath away. Books that leave you on the verge of tears, holding your breath, wondering what will happen to these people you've suddenly gotten to know so intimately.
For me, this is one of those books.
I read it slowly, despite its slim profile. I read slowly because I didn't want it to end. I read slowly because I didn't want to continue.
But I kept coming back. I had to find out what happened to these people.
This was also a personal book for me. The journey taken in this book was similar to a journey I had taken myself. A journey into the unknown while feverishly trying to unravel the reason for taking the journey in the first place.
Three people are brought together not quite by chance to explore their pasts and decide on their futures.
This triangle is delicately balanced; a slow dance on the head of a pin. Somehow Grossman pulls this off. It's more than the words he uses. It's the characters he has created and the spaces between them. Spaces that are empty, but fill up slowly with glances, movements and words.
It is left up to the reader to determine if this is a story of redemption or a story of loss. This, too, hangs in a finely wrought balance.