Reviews
"A beautiful and multi-layered novel. . . The natural, understated elegance of Bock's prose quickly becomes quite addictive. His narrator's conversational style contributes to a delicious feeling of intimacy, as though we're listening to a good friend." --Lindsay McKnight, Winnipeg Free Press "A page turner, a book so hard to put down I read it in two evenings. . . . The characters Bock imagines and creates--adults and children, Canadians and Spanish--seem like people we know already with their peccadilloes and charms, even though Bock has such fresh insight into human behavior. He has an essential eye. . . The story is sad yet hopeful, brisk yet thoughtful, reflecting Bock's generous talents as a storywriter." --Jennifer Hunter, The Toronto Star "Finely crafted, disarmingly casual prose that quietly penetrates the reader's mind and heart.... On one level, the novel captures the difficulty men have reading woman; on a deeper level, Bock plumbs issue of memory, moral responsibility and what constitutes a man's real love for a woman." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Excellent, and sensitively written. Going Home Again is a story bound up in complex emotions and subtle character development, sad and yet hopeful with its haunting reminder that we are damned or redeemed by our passions." --Linden MacIntyre, Giller Prize-winning author of The Bishop's Man and Why Men Lie "A tense, riveting, beautifully layered novel, Going Home Again is an exquisite story of a complex and troubled family. Dennis Bock is a superb writer." --Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, "Finely crafted, disarmingly casual prose that quietly penetrates the reader's mind and heart.... On one level, the novel captures the difficulty men have reading woman; on a deeper level, Bock plumbs issue of memory, moral responsibility and what constitutes a man's real love for a woman." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Excellent, and sensitively written. Going Home Again is a story bound up in complex emotions and subtle character development, sad and yet hopeful with its haunting reminder that we are damned or redeemed by our passions." --Linden MacIntyre, Giller Prize-winning author of The Bishop's Man and Why Men Lie "A tense, riveting, beautifully layered novel, Going Home Again is an exquisite story of a complex and troubled family. Dennis Bock is a superb writer." --Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo
