Rent Meridian

Synopsis

At its best...the tone of the book [is] flat, direct, measured, deliberate, with a distinct lack of drama....And the tone is right; it's not the plot that carries the novel forward but Meridian's attempt to resolve, or preserve the reality of, the questions of knowledge, history and murder that Miss Walker introduces early on....But such questions lead all too easily to high-flown language and to pretensions that fictional characters cannot support....Miss Walker does not always avoid this trap; though her tendency is to insist on the prosaic, to bring philosophy down to earth, Meridian at times seems to be floating straight to Heaven....Meridian is interesting enough without all this.

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