"Embark is a monumental piece of work: this is O'Brien in his late, Audenesque, hyper-authoritative mode, and the collection has a number of straight-to-the-anthology pieces about mortality, history and culture. Steeped, as usual, with great and grim humour, wonderful music and the kind of literate and culturally informed wisdom that is increasingly rare in these deeply thick times."
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