Vanishing - Tapa blanda

Rich thematic material. The book is a war novel, country novel, campus novel, coming-of-age novel, gay novel, courtroom novel, and romance novel. Woodward has a knack for sketching striking and memorable scenes.

A vividly drawn tale of war, art and sexuality.

Clever, subtle, and rewarding. An ambitious investigation into the nature of truth. Ingenious.

A hard-to-put-down tale of deception. Finely written, with rich detail and vivid descriptions of people and place.

Beautifully descriptive and often dark, bordering on the edges of morality, but with touches of humor.

This is a huge, complex novel, at turns both blackly funny and bleakly moving, driven by truly original characters, rich in obscure pieces of knowledge, evocative of a long-lost, little-known past, and always absorbing - in a word, a masterpiece.

A complicated and compelling novel about an enigmatic and eccentric artist. A portrait of an artist as a young man, with a very unreliable artist constructing the narrative. It's an experiment in storytelling, a mystery that unfolds by impressively alternating between three time frames. It's an amalgam of genres -- Romantic poetry, Gothic romance, and World War II adventure all inflect the writing -- stitched together by the singularity of its narrator's voice. An ambitious, rangy and unusual novel. Something to admire.

Superb. [Woodward's] best and most ambitious novel to date, a compulsively readable onion-peel of a book in the course of which any sane reader will gradually come to doubt every single claim Kenneth Brill makes about himself and yet will simultaneously come to feel this may be the most dauntingly honest narrator of any novel so far this year. A novel that defies reduction -- an opulent and stunningly sly performance.

A thorough novel of intrigue covering one of the shakiest times in history. Woodward plays with the novel's language, with the novel's structure, and makes the reader wonder what to believe. And, in the end, maybe we believe it all.

Arrested by authorities who suspect his elaborate landscape paintings in Heathrow Village contain coded information, a World War II artist recounts his early years as a politically connected camouflage artist in the London art scene and the Soho underworld.