Man Of Bone Book Review

Maureen Garvie, author of George Johnson's War, Amy by Any Other Name and Lake Rules, wrote a detailed review of the novel Man of Bone. Garvie begins the review by very briefly giving the reader an idea of what the novel is about. She talks about the key points of the novel and the background of the setting. Then she explains the “techniques” of how the novel is written. She compares it to Shakespeare and tells us what the context of the book is like. Garvie then talks about Burridge while he is being tortured and how he is being emotional. She talks about Burridge descending into hell and his flashbacks of him and his family, showing love for his family. Garvie ends the review talking about the way the author closes the novel. She mentions that the reader needs to find clues in order to fully understand the book, and the reasons to Burridge’s behavior. Garvie mentions that the novel Man of Bone is dark and humorous at times. She says that, “Burridge In Extremis is still blackly funny, allowing us some comic relief.”. The novel is filled with dark torturing

Garvie does not mention that the childhood memories are similar to what's happening to Burridge at the time and that the reader can easily make the connection between the memory and the situation. But Garvie is right about Cumyn making a bond between their lives and in the novel, Cumyn makes a bond between the reader and the characters by emotions and what Burridge thinks about them. Burridge makes his family a goal to survive for and motivate him to keep pushing through. In conclusion, this review from Maureen Garvie about the novel Man of Bone talks about the context of the novel in detail and her views on the novel are similar to mine but with little