Monday, January 14, 2008

Now Magazine Reviews Michael Winter's Latest

Winter's Tale
Susan G. Cole
from Now Magazine

There’s a section of The Architects Are Here that really got to me. It describes hard-assed tech biz whiz David Twombly’s knack for getting rich, and uses the metaphor of stacking plates – a stand-in for stocks – until they’re just about to collapse and then selling out fast.
Reading it gave me that feeling I love – a thundering in my head that I don’t notice until I’ve finished the passage and my brain calms down. It’s the feeling I get when I’m being moved by fiction...

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Rattling Books has just released an unabridged audiobook version of Michael Winter's prize-winning novel The Big Why, narrated by Robert Joy.