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Outstanding
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Chicago Sun-Times Jessa Crispin
The Thin Place is a bright, shimmering book, and the variety of voices come together like a globe cut from glass in the sun, separating the light into tiny rainbows and then reconstructing them into pure white light.
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Outstanding
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Christian Science Monitor Yvonne Zipp
"The Thin Place"... left me scraping the plate and looking around for stray crumbs
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Outstanding
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Davis moves with such slithering ease from documenting the material world to describing the ineffable that the reader may occasionally feel disoriented. But a good part of the novel's pleasure lies exactly in that skewed dreaminess.
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
Davis stretches relationships over centuries and species in this loopy follow-up to her historical, Versailles. [17 Oct 2005, p. 42]
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Outstanding
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San Francisco Chronicle Irina Reyn
With "The Thin Place," Davis is at the height of her powers; her prose... is so exquisite, that it appears to emanate from a supernatural source.
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Outstanding
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Booklist Donna Seaman
As strange and deadly events unfold, Davis works out a calculus of the accidental and the inevitable and maps the interface of the natural and the supernatural, the human and the divine. [1 Dec 2005, p. 24]
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Outstanding
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Kirkus Reviews
A delightful, surprise-filled narrative: Davis's best yet. [15 Sep 2005, p. 99]
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Outstanding
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Chicago Tribune Beth Kephart
Davis is, as I've said, fearless. She takes us to heaven and to hell and back--attempts to locate, among so many atmospheric vapors, the place and purpose of the soul. I'm in awe of her achievement with this book, of her utterly fantastic and unfettered mind. [12 Feb 2006]
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Favorable
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Washington Post Julia Livshin
No amount of character sketching or plot summary can begin to convey the experience of reading this strange and delightful novel.
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Favorable
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Library Journal Lawrence Rungren
While the end result could have been a bit too airily "spiritual," Davis's focus on commonplace activities within the community keeps the novel firmly grounded. [1 Oct 2005, p. 64]
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Favorable
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Boston Globe Barbara Fisher
This is a deeply religious book in its way.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Fiona Foster
The Thin Place is not Kathryn Davis's most accomplished novel, but it is as unique, thoughtful and confounding as her best work. [28 Jan 2006, p. D6]
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review Lucy Ellman
What the novel needs is a cataclysmic climax, a big bang, not this feeble, frightened little acorn of an ending. After such a buildup, such omniscience on the part of the author, you don't expect Davis's courage to desert her, but it does. Nonetheless, she has done something great here, something heathen, anarchic, democratic. She has given everyone and every thing a voice: animals, plants, children, coma patients, even the earth itself.
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Favorable
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Salon Laura Miller
Getting a grip on Davis' purpose here can be a little like grasping the lichen's weird language. It's not that "The Thin Place" is cryptic, exactly, but its mysteries come at you sidewise, through rhythms and inferences, rather than head-on.
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Favorable
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Village Voice Joy Press
Spectacularly weird and layered.
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