Shadow Play: A Novel - Psychological Thriller Book by Norton Paperback | Perfect for Book Clubs & Nighttime Reading

I just don't know what to say about this book. The plot, writing style, and main tropes behind the novel are just so unique from anything else I've read that I really can't critique the book, because I can't compare it to other novels.The only authors I can compare Baxter to are Milan Kundera and Jonathan Carrol, and even then only lightly. The book, "Shadow Play", is a superbly written, idiosyncratic little masterpiece with ordinary characters that really aren't ordinary at all. The book jumps from character to character and from past to presnet with alarming suddenness, but that's not a fault. The prose sings. The moral questions are interesting and serious. The main characters are wonderful and real.Altogether, a perfectly written book that so thoroughly inhabits its own world that to grade it in terms of good or bad literature is just about impossible, for me, at least. Highest recommendation.