Sunday 15 July 2007

FROM THE REVIEW IN THE TIMES

From The Times yesterday (Saturday):

"Gray’s fitness over a long distance enables him to set his present subject deep in the complexities of the society that engendered him, just as his Dylan books do. With McTell, this entails untangling his ancestors and their various destinies during and after the American Civil War, and anatomising the effects of the Depression on the communities in which he performed… This is the fullest account yet of McTell’s 59-year life, a hybrid of social history and travelogue – Gray’s as much as his subject’s."

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