Daniel Quinn's The Holy is a mosaic of interlocking quests, robustly written and filled with astonishing ideas. It keeps flirting with generic conventions -- of thrillers, of horror fiction, of new-age novels -- but, every time it threatens to fall into cliché, it pulls an unexpected trick that plunges it into deeper and more startling waters.
Quinn's critics have faulted his earlier novels for being too didactic. In The Holy, he seamlessly integrates his philosophical concerns -- about consumerism, the environment, the pitfalls of religious faith -- into a profoundly satisfying story, both grand and intimate, that bristles with excitement.
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Quinn's critics have faulted his earlier novels for being too didactic. In The Holy, he seamlessly integrates his philosophical concerns -- about consumerism, the environment, the pitfalls of religious faith -- into a profoundly satisfying story, both grand and intimate, that bristles with excitement.
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