The Magic Journey: A Novel
by John Nichols
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Author: John NicholsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-15
ISBN: 0805063390
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Book Review: A melodramatic eulogy for agricultuural New Mexico
Summary: 3 Stars
In many important ways, John Nichols is right. What the "modern" world has considered progress has utterly wiped out centuries of subsistence agriculture, and has done it in both a racist and classist fashion. No arguments here.
However, I find his 2nd and 3rd novels of his New Mexico trilogy to be politically dead on but literarily melodramatic at best, histrionic at worst. The April Delaney character in this novel spends so much time in her head--a place that, for the most part, I had no interest in being--that the actual New Mexico portion of the novel does not happen almost until halfway through the book. The Virgil Leyba character is not as well developed as the author's forward suggested he was--certainly not as well developed at any of the Milagro characters.
The tempo and Mozartian bounce of Milagro here is replaced with a quasi-Wagnerian feel which is clearly not the work of a practiced hand. He writes like a disapproving old man.
I was disappointed both in this and the 3rd of the trilogy. IMHO, stick to Milagro.
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