news </head> <body class="layout-one-column"> <div id="container"> <div id="container-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="pagebody-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="alpha"> <div id="alpha-inner" class="pkg"> <p class="content-nav"> <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/2009/04/washington-post-takes-a-gander.html">« Washington Post Takes a Gander</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/">Main</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/2009/05/reading-tonight.html">Reading Tonight! »</a> </p> <h2 class="date-header">05/05/2009</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-66400173"> <h3 class="entry-header"> The St. Petersburg Times Takes a Look </h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Angie Drobnic Holan likes the way The Cradle bounces from story to story:</span></p><div class="blockquote" style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="background-color: #e1c4a8; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;">These two story lines — one of young parents-to-be, another of older parents saying goodbye — unfold in tandem in <em>The Cradle</em>, and part of the pleasure is deducing the connections between the stories through a surprising number of plot twists. The structure allows Patrick Somerville to create a short novel with the sweep and depth of a much longer work (and this, his first novel, no less).</span><br /><span style="background-color: #e1c4a8; font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><p><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Click here to <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article996243.ece" target="_blank">read the whole review</a>.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> Posted by Patrick Somerville at 12:44:03 PM </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_qoptions = { tags:"typepad.core" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve();</script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM.gif?tags=typepad.core" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> </noscript>  <script src="http://cdn.media6degrees.com/static/ty2093.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body> </html> <script type="text/javascript"> var captchaImgAttempts = 0; var allowAnonComments = '0'; var registrationRequired = 0; var registrationOptional = 0; var emailRequired = 1; var useAvatars = 0; var jsonURL = "/.services/json-rpc"; var captchaSrc = "/.services/captcha?code_encrypted="; var alertCommentCannotBeBlank = "You can not leave an empty comment. 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