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Embark is a monumental piece of work: this is OBrien in his late, Audenesque, hyper-authoritative mode, and the collection has a number of straight-to-the-anthology pieces about mortality, history and culture steeped, as usual, with great and grim humor, wonderful music and the kind of literate and culturally informed wisdom that is increasingly rare in these deeply thick times.
Embark is a monumental piece of work: this is OBrien in his late, Audenesque, hyper-authoritative mode, and the collection has a number of straight-to-the-anthology pieces about mortality, history and culture steeped, as usual, with great and grim humor, wonderful music and the kind of literate and culturally informed wisdom that is increasingly rare in these deeply thick times.