- Published: 3 March 2000
- ISBN: 9780099273899
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $30.00
The Vintner's Luck
- Published: 3 March 2000
- ISBN: 9780099273899
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $30.00
This is a gorgeous novel: as fine, rich, satiny and unpredictable as the vintages that it describes
The Times
A beautifully written exploration of the inexplicable, into which is woven an all-too-human chronicle of burning desire, violence, murderousness, bitter jealousy, curiosity, sexual deviations, shame and a fidelity of a sort
The Times
Enchanting
She
The nearest useful comparison to Knox's conceptual framework is Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, which also explores social power and control in the context of other possible quantum universes
ABC magazine
Angelic writing and inspired structure
Guardian
Ms Knox's philosophical scheme defies brief summary: like a witty, post-modern Milton, she rewrites the Christian myth and the whole cosmology of "Paradise Lost"
Economist
Knox comprehends the irredeemable sadness of loss and, more than any writer I have read for years, manages to touch the heart by paring sophistry and digression from the essential cores of her characters. Beautifully written, The Vintner's Luck possesses a complex bouquet of conceits and ideas but it is the simplicity of Elizabeth Knox's writing that in the end draws out the savour of human experience and compassion
Independent on Sunday
A strange book, both whimsical and deeply ambitious
Independent