Kate Evans
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26,301 appearances
191 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 3d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is a book full of people journeying through things.
Kate's already mentioned the Met.
There's a walk up Park Avenue.
There's the drive in upstate Massachusetts to the Raspberry Farm near where the
aforementioned accident takes place but all of these journeyings through landscapes through rooms through chambers are really in the end just settings so that these characters can wisely talk about the past and as is so often takes place when characters are talking about the past and living in retrospection they're too wise they're too considered they're not in the moment enough and the book really takes off when it abandons Daphne and her first person narrative
And we go in third person into narrating what actually took place when she was nine years old.
And suddenly the urgency and the sense, that's when you start as a reader to get on the edge of your seat.
I found the rest of it a little bit comfortable.
And then there's a core crisis at the middle, which has an urgency.
Yeah, and nearly cut down the tree and could not tell a lie.
Like the whole thing after a while becomes so self-referential.
No, maybe just to confuse listeners even further, it's actually two horses by the end.
Whistler is both a horse in a story, but also a small figurine horse that Daphne's husband brings back from his mother's estate in Wisconsin that sits there.
And so, yes, in many ways, Whistler, the title which refers to this horse is an evocation of the thing that got Daphne through a moment of crisis in her childhood.
So it's a classic portal.
A beautifully written book, but I found it a little bit precious after a while.
Gee, I can guess how that one's going to go.
Do you know, I've been reading a book by the American author George R. Stewart that he wrote at the end of the Second World War called Names on the Land.
It's a non-fiction work and it's a summary and survey and history of toponyms in America, place names, how America, white America, colonial America named itself.
French names, indigenous names, English names, Dutch names, names on the great prairies and plains, what the Mormons chose to call.
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