Today, on the Surgical Fiction Podcast, chapter 1 of Brandan Dragan’s exceptional literary novel, THE WAGES OF GRACE. The book is available if not right now, then very shortly, from Audible.
Perhaps what I loved best about narrating this book is the beautiful writing. There is a beautiful story, but for it to really shine—and this shines mightily—one has to have the words to polish that shine. So often we read a book and can say it was good, but in retrospect it could have been so much better. That better comes in the arrangement and use of words on the page to not just tell a story but to sing it to us. Such books may have horrendous content, Cormac McCarthy's brilliant but horrifying novel Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West is one such example, but the writing transcends the subject matter and sings to us. Every word transports us. We feel the highs and lows, the agony and the passion, the goodness and badness of every instant. The author, through their writing, does not just carry us along, they embrace us. The unwritten pact between author and reader [wherein the reader agrees to come along for the ride and the author promises that ride will be not only worth the reader's time and effort, it will be satisfying as well] is fully realized in such books.
I thought The Wages of Grace was quite well written and fully satisfying. There was nothing that rang as false. Thierry's world was fully realized. It's a lovely book, and ultimately a love story between a man and...well, I'll let the reader/listener decide.
The full unabridged production of THE WAGES OF GRACE is available on Audible today. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BFBZZJP1?qid=1663200125&sr=1-16&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_16&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=PT0FBSQRNKNBDRHMVJSX
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