Voth is also having a bit of a personal crisis that is only inflamed by the manuscript. But the footnotes grow more and more unhinged (and occasionally even speak to each other) as Voth's position at the university is put almost entirely in the control of a giant pharmaceutical-military-industrial-complex of a company that's subsidizing the university. Voth's footnotes are occasionally simply academic in nature, complete with citations and thoughts on queer theory or history. I never thought I'd see someone attempt another Pale Fire, and I certainly never thought they would pull it off.ĭr. The story is from a discovered manuscript, full of thievery and action and lots of sex and there is also a Pale-Fire-esque second narrative that plays out entirely through footnotes in that manuscript. It was pitched to me as Sarah Waters meets Vladimir Nabokov and I was like, "Sign me the hell up!" and it's a surprisingly good pitch. There are a few authors out there intent on changing that and Jordy Rosenberg's new novel is one of the most ambitious ones yet. Historical fiction tends to be very cis, straight, and white.
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