May 23, 2013
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Elizabeth Kostova
Evil and the nature of the Good
by Keith Taylor
posted 6/1/2005
The quick way of summarizing Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian — a 650-page novel about vampires — does not come close to describing her accomplishment. Vampire books create expectations — prose perhaps a little overdone and lots of blood. The prose in Kostova's novel is exquisitely crafted, always clear and understated, and she was obviously working to avoid
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