Update of 11:45 PM ET the same day —
See also remarks by Freeman Dyson on the novel
A High Wind in Jamaica quoted here Sunday morning.
From an introduction to the novel by Francine Prose:
"In the end, everything in this luminous, extraordinary novel
is so much the reverse of what we think it should be, or what
we would expect, that we are left entirely disoriented—
unsure of what anything is, or should be. The effect is
disturbing and yet beautiful, fantastic but also frighteningly
true to life."