![]() ![]() ![]() There is no magic in this book - in terms of wizarding or in terms of narrative sorcery. Rowling’s new novel, “The Casual Vacancy,” we are firmly in Muggle-land - about as far from the enchanted world of Harry Potter as we can get. So what do the critics have to say about Rowling’s novel? Below are excerpts from several reviews: Rowling’s Adult, Post-‘Harry Potter’ Book Titled ‘The Casual Vacancy,’ Details Released The book, from Little, Brown & Co., will retail for $35 (the digital version costs $17.99) 1 book on Amazon and has consistently been in the top 100 since it was announced in February. The 512-page novel also includes the phrases “miraculously unguarded vagina” and “with an ache in his heart and in his balls.”Ĭasual Vacancy is already the No. ![]() Press materials have described the tome as “blackly comic,” while The New Yorker called the description of one family “ostentatiously unremitting: drugs, prostitution, the stink of diapers.” In addition, many of the characters (teens especially) are troubled, and one mother is a heroin addict. The book might surprise some readers expecting another Potter novel. ![]()
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