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Book Reviews

June 24, 2018

28

28
Christopher Lappas
Ilura Press 2017
ISBN: 9781921325304
$28.00
336 pp

One of the highest praises I can offer for a debut novel is, when I have finished reading it, to immediately hope that the author writes another one.

28 is the central character of this complex work and she is an enigma – to herself, to the narrator, Scribe, and to the reader. However, Christopher Lappas treats us to three other important and strong characters: Scribe himself, Scribe’s young son Andre and Scribe’s X. (more…)