If the book’s ambitions prove modest, it feels entirely appropriate, considering Richard’s ultimate discovery that sometimes a modest life lived well––far from society luncheons and award ceremonies––is good enough. Yet by placing the novel in so specific a milieu––Los Angeles in 2019, an era where Americans are feeling the class divide more than ever––Revoyr forges a work that stands on its own. Indeed, part of the pleasure of reading the novel is inhabiting that familiar structure. ' Four urbanites from Los Angeles embark on an uncharted trail, invoking shadows of Deliverance in this fast - paced story which. In many ways, A Student of History adopts the familiar structure of the bildungsroman. At the heart of A Student of History, and what prevents the novel from merely serving as a takedown of the scandalous ultra-rich, is Revoyr’s complex characterization of Marion W. is a city teeming with contradictions, one where the world of everyday concerns and that of the elite class co-exist but rarely intersect until, that is, a random stroke of luck or fate sees a person travel from one world to the next. Style is both elegant and pleasurable to read she juggles geographical detail, context, and plotting with a deceptive ease.
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