Michael Dirda Raves about Connie Willis’s BLACKOUT
We’ve just seen the advance copies of Connie Willis’s time travel epic, Blackout, and the book turned out beautifully. Copies should be going out to customers in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, here’s a bit from Michael Dirda’s review in The Washington Post: “Blackout plunges the reader right into the middle of three key happenings of 1940: the rescue of the British troops from Dunkirk, the evacuation of children to rural villages and country houses, and the life of ordinary Londoners during the Blitz. Every detail rings true, with the kind of authority that only intense research can bring. Still, all of Willis’s knowledge is subsumed in her bravura storytelling: “Blackout” is, by turns, witty, suspenseful, harrowing and occasionally comic to the point of slapstick.”
While we’re at it, here’s a shorter bit from a short review in The Cleveland Plain Dealer: “…despite the conceit of time travel, the book shows the attention to period detail that defines historical novels.”