In the Absence of Heroes by Anthony McCarten review

McCarten has written a dazzlingly clever sequel to Death of a Superhero.

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18th February, 2012

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"A prophet is not without honour,” as someone once said, “but in his own country, and in his own house.” You sometimes wonder how Anthony McCarten manages to sneak so completely beneath the radar of literary celebrity in this neck of the woods. His 2005 novel, Death of a Superhero, for example, was published to modest acclaim here, but was republished in England (reset in Watford rather than Taranaki) and was something of a hit, praised in the ...

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