Charles Davis's Reviews
Reviews of Charles’s Work
Nov.04.2011
Published by Luxury Reading
luxury reading.com October 28, 2011 Review: Standing at the Crossroads by Charles Davis
Reviewed by Claudia Robinson
“It was danger that...
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Published by MostlyFiction
Review by Friederike Knabe (JUL 17, 2011)
A “story man” walks from village to village across bare African lands, carrying a heavy book bag over his shoulder, filled with an odd...
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Published by Fiction Addict
This is the story of one man in a particular place, at a particular point in time. It is a story of beliefs and passion, of a county and it’s people, and it is a story of truths...
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Published by Library Thing, Good Reads, Amazon, etcetera
Good Reads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9734014-standing-at-the-crossroads#
Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/work/10689740
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Standing-at-...
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Published by ForeWord Magazine
The villagers call him the Story Man; the whites know him as the Barefoot Librarian. He walks from one village to the next, carrying loads of books and conducting performances...
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Published by New York Journal of Books
It’s nice to read a book in which the reader is the hero. And in Charles Davis’s Standing at the Crossroads, the reader is most definitely the hero.
This is a remarkable journey...
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Published by The Independent
Standing at the Crossroads by Charles Davis, published by The Permanent Press in Sag Harbor, is a fine piece of writing, and it’s hard to think of a more timely and haunting...
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Published by Publishers Weekly
Davis's sincere latest (after Walking the Dog) is a tale of violence and literary redemption set in Africa. The narrator, a local nicknamed the Barefoot Librarian, is a shaman-...
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Published by Library Journal
Set in war-ravaged Sudan, this novel depicts three people on the run from the Warriors of God: the narrator, a black African, reader of Western novels, itinerant librarian, and...
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Published by Kirkus
A novel of evasion and pursuit, set in Africa and written in the spare, allegorical style of Davis’ first novel, Walk on, Bright Boy (2007).
The unnamed narrator is an itinerant...
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Published by LibraryThing, GoodReads, Amazon
Despite being pretty much still born thanks to sniffy reviews in the trade papers, Walking The Dog continues to attract favourable comment in readers’ on-line reviews.
Two reviews...
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Published by LibraryThing &c
“I got a copy through the Early Reviewers group, and raced through this while traveling over the weekend. It's a series of interconnected short stories set on the island of Santa...
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Published by Flap copy
“A man accused by the Inquisition holds up engagement with the world as the antidote to a religion of death. Apply these lessons where and when you will; they’re widely relevant...
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Published by The Independent
What’s a “meta for” if not analogy? And does Charles Davis ever go “over” and “above” expected comparisons in Walking the Dog, the novel that follows his impressive fiction debut...
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Published by Rocky Mountain News
Author’s background: In addition to writing, Davis spends a lot of his time walking. According to his bio, he researches walking guides, "after spending the better part of his...
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About Charles
Charles Davis was born and educated, and has travelled and worked. He now lives and writes. That has always seemed to me to be enough biography for any writer, but being an avid reader, too, I appreciate that curiosity demands a bit more, so . . . .
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Causes Charles Davis Supports
Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace