![]() ![]() Powers also takes inspiration from Peter Pan, the Children's Crusade and the Pied Paper legend, as well as drawing from his own childhood experiences in Thailand (another city of angels in a land of the free). Another is Nico, who is aging very fast, but who becomes a leader to the other child patients in his escapist schemes. One of the patients is Joy, a brilliant Asian immigrant whose leg is being attacked by an aggressive cancer. He starts an affair with Linda, a younger nurse, who attempts to heal her young charges with storytelling - these stories form frequent digressions. For me the biggest problem is that the plot, such as it is, is so full of digressions and so dominated by it's central character's increasingly frazzled state of mind that it becomes very difficult to follow.ĭr Ricky Kraft is a overworked young surgeon working at a paediatric hospital in "Angel City" (presumably Los Angeles). I have decidedly mixed feelings about this one, and four stars may be too generous - as so often with Powers it is full of ideas and references - indeed it would have taken more than twice as long to read if I had looked up all of the unfamiliar words, events and scientific elements that Powers discusses. ![]()
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