![]() ![]() John Mandel turn to the first page of Last Night in Montreal. John Mandel is the rarest of artists one who can provoke the sensation of synesthesia in her readers in plain language, she invites you into the fantasy she creates, she suspends your disbelief, you live in her world, and hope there will always be another page to turn. Synesthesia is a condition in which a sensory stimulus presented in one modality evokes a sensation in a different modality. ![]() Once upon a time a dancer, Emily, the artist, pirouettes so gracefully that Emily, the writer now invites, inspires her readers to dance with her. The best writers ensure their readers time is well invested. Her words evoke sights sounds, scents, a sense of touch with such rhythm, Im rhapsodized so captivated by the skill with which she conjures her fantasy, Ive become an active participant having long ago forgotten I began as a reader. Free audio Last Night in Montreal in the audio player below. Reading her words, I am exhilarated, enthralled, so engaged I dont realize how seamlessly she folds the eternal into the ephemeral, how discreetly she glides with a musicians glissando from one pitch to another. ![]()
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