Raban is a marvel, moving with apparent ease between fiction projects, adventurous travel narratives, and experiential and richly observed reportage. Though more widely known for his non-fiction work—Bad Land: An American Romance, his account of the history and heartbreak of eastern Montana, won a National Book Critics Circle Award—Raban’s fiction is always informed by his own rambles in the world. It is also full of distressingly topical questions—most creepily so in Surveillance, his latest novel.
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