![]() It covers a fifty-year period during which the paper struggles to keep afloat and gives us a close-up view of the paper's staff of the near-past (2007). The book focuses on an international English-language paper which has been established in Rome by businessman Cyrus Ott. It's almost as if he's trying to do too much here. But the book is very uneven and disconcerting. The frontispiece also calls this a "wry, vibrant debut." Maybe. Rome does not make an impression on me in this book. There are reviews which say that Rachman has a vivid sense of time and place. ![]() The blurb says that the book is "set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome." True, but Rachman doesn't really describe that gorgeous backdrop to the reader, so I'm not sure that it matters all that much what city serves as the backdrop. I don't love it and I don't hate it.but then I don't really feel "Meh" about it either. I am very on the fence with Tom Rachman's book, The Imperfectionists. Vintage Mystery Sunday: Case for Three Detectives.Something Wicked This Way Comes: Review.Challenge Complete: Location, Location, Location. ![]() Vintage Mystery Sunday: The Footsteps at the Lock. ![]()
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