McCormack contrives a balance, brilliantly, between fantasy and realism. If Crowe’s childhood is a grimly funny folktale, as well as a fantasy about a fallen angel, it is also a convincing account of how an eccentric, lonely boy schemes to survive.
McCormack contrives a balance, brilliantly, between fantasy and realism. If Crowe’s childhood is a grimly funny folktale, as well as a fantasy about a fallen angel, it is also a convincing account of how an eccentric, lonely boy schemes to survive.