2006 books

[peteryoung]

14) Joseph Roth, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, 1939
A tale about the last days of a Paris down-and-out whose life is suddenly filled with small miracles, Roth drank himself to death in similar fashion at the age of 45, a month after he finished writing it. It's short and concise but enjoyable, a mature economy with words being very evident, and through this you get the sense of the last throes of an aimless life, a knot unravelling. Roth is worth exploring more.