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Title: Vermeer's images, Eliot's poetry, & the tone of Neil Gaiman
Review: Beagle wrote this novel when he was 19 years old, but people three times that age would have some difficulty creating such am entrancing book on the concept of "forever". A Fine And Private Place shares the style of The Last Unicorn, filled with simile and internal monologue. It doesn't treat the concept of blind faith very kindly, but that may be part of what makes it so special. All of his characters are fey and rueful in some degree but not cloyingly so. They are far from ignorant about the ways of this world; their off-center foci make for the eccentricity. An inexplicable raven, a Jewish widow, a pair of ghostly lovers, and a chess-playing old man sound like the stuff of cliche. Far from it in this book. It is among the most lyrical novels I have read. Highly recommended.
