Rent In the Country of the Young

Synopsis

IN THE COUNTRY OF THE YOUNG unfolds dreamily, moving between past and present..., until all of its stories swirl into one. In the end this story is less about the pretty young ghost and her awakening than about the stony middle-aged man who experiences a transformation of his own, a transformation that Ms. Carey traces lightly and with care. Her book has a strangeness and transfixing intensity that save it from the sentimental perils inherent in this man's reawakening.

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