![]() ![]() ![]() “Three Stages of Amazement,” her second novel, is set in San Francisco. Edgarian has done (in half the space, with less loftiness but more soap-operatic plot tricks). Edgarian’s turbulent, furiously compelling book.įor the sake of concision, let’s sideline all further thoughts of Mr. Franzen, Silicon Valley and the Obama presidency are to Ms. What Halliburton and the Bush era were to Mr. Carol Edgarian’s “Three Stages of Amazement” shares a surprising amount of common ground with last year’s most argued-about novel, Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom.” Whatever the overarching themes of either book may be, it’s the sharply observed detail and intensity that matter: the spectacle of high-strung, hot-blooded, restless people conflating their own private crises with the political and economic turmoil of their times. ![]()
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