Book Review: The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland by Frank Delaney - Page 2

The Last Storyteller is a novel about the power of stories and about how they convey meaning and immortality to our lives. At one point Ben McCarthy is told that to tell a good story you need to use language with accuracy and elegance. Certainly this is what Frank Delaney does in The Last Storyteller. Delaney's linguistic toolbox is as well honed and polished as Ben's becomes and this, his own story, is one that will resonate with the reader well beyond the pages of the book.

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Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of the novels Black Cow and Sleep Before Evening, the poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, …

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