It is the story of Eggert and Hannibal. Hannibal is Freeland's (an imaginary country based upon an amalgamation of Greenland and Iceland) president and Eggert his most trusted advisor (the youth call him a facist). This book is a bit satirical in nature, though I have this tendency never to really know that unless it tells me so on the book cover. If you are willing to stay with something for a good length of time before forming a decision, read this book, it's rather good/funny.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Friends Of Freeland
The other day I finished reading The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser. It took me about one hundred pages to warm up to this book and then another fifty to be sure I didn't regret my choice.
It is the story of Eggert and Hannibal. Hannibal is Freeland's (an imaginary country based upon an amalgamation of Greenland and Iceland) president and Eggert his most trusted advisor (the youth call him a facist). This book is a bit satirical in nature, though I have this tendency never to really know that unless it tells me so on the book cover. If you are willing to stay with something for a good length of time before forming a decision, read this book, it's rather good/funny.
It is the story of Eggert and Hannibal. Hannibal is Freeland's (an imaginary country based upon an amalgamation of Greenland and Iceland) president and Eggert his most trusted advisor (the youth call him a facist). This book is a bit satirical in nature, though I have this tendency never to really know that unless it tells me so on the book cover. If you are willing to stay with something for a good length of time before forming a decision, read this book, it's rather good/funny.
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