Matthew Wong: The New World, Paintings From Los Angeles 2016 By Jessica Holmes.Pamela Sneed: ABOUT time By Jillian McManemin.Joan Snyder: To Become a Painting By Norman L Kleeblatt.The Historical Present: Collective Solitude at Coenties Slip By Prudence Peiffer.Hell is the bell summoning them to prayer. Slowly, skilfully Donoghue builds a sense of brooding intensity a claustrophobia born, not, as in Room, of a lack of physical space – the men are constantly out in the open air – but of their inability to escape the endless diktats of their faith.
It’s a gripping yarn: a Christian Castaway 2000 a Lord God Almighty of the Flies. But before long, Artt’s puritanical bent starts fraying the bonds of brotherhood and fealty. The lack of any fallback position brings out skills they never knew they had. At first, the three thrive on pitting themselves against the odds. Not only that, they must do so without leaving its shores even to trade. But providence has blown them there and there, Artt decrees, they must stay and build a chapel. There is no fresh water source and no fertile soil in which to grow vegetables. Soon they come upon Skellig Michael – that twin-peaked shard on the edge of the Atlantic.
Dismayed by the laxity he finds at a monastery he is visiting, and seizing on a dream as prophecy, he sets forth to find an unsullied spot with two of its monks: Cormac, a late convert who lost his wife and children to the plague, and Trian, a young daydreamer handed to the community at the age of 13. Set in seventh-century Ireland, Haven follows the attempts of Artt, a revered scholar and priest, to set up a religious community far away from the temptations of the world. In her latest book, Haven, she shows how, with enough zealotry, a spiritual sanctuary can be transformed into a cruel parody of the divine. In Room, Emma Donoghue’s Josef Fritzl-inspired novel about a mother and child trapped in a kidnapper’s lair, the author suggested that, with enough love, it was possible to create an almost-haven in the depths of hell.
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