Touch the Water, Touch the Wind

"It seems querulous to suggest to an accomplished novelist that he show, not tell, especially when the voice that tells is as suffused with genuine poetry, as impeccable, as fascinating in its modulations, as this one. But scenes are treated with high-handed brevity, tangled relationships are snipped and summarized, interesting minor characters are inflated like balloons till they become pointlessly major, major figures are delineated like cartoons till they become interesting abstractions, flavorful thickenings in the plot are at once diluted, and the result, though beguiling is an exquisite sketch for a grand novel.Oz, Amos is the author of 'Touch the Water, Touch the Wind', published 1991 under ISBN 9780156907729 and ISBN 0156907720.