A god in ruins review6/22/2023 The writing is labored and stilted, the story rambles confusingly and the dialog is childish and - sometimes - even ridiculous. The master storyteller that brought us such memorable works as Trinity, Exodus and Redemption seems utterly absent from this latest book. Uris, himself once a wordsmith of cunning and grace, seems to have spent his time working on A God in Ruins with his writing hand wrapped in gauze and his brain on a different planet altogether. This paragraph so neatly sums up this particular book, it's almost eerie. The dialogue came from pickled talking heads, not people of wit and observation. She was unable to organize her work, keep it under the central command of the writer. Down through the years, as each new piece of non-poetry grew longer, it strayed. Some of her earlier poetry had danced and leapt and was filled with cunning and grace and metaphors. About midway through Leon Uris' 12th novel, A God in Ruins, a husband considers when he's asked to critique his wife's writing.
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