The seasoned symbolism Hoffman offers really blew me away as well.
Today I looked back over some of the lines I had underlined with my pencil and each one either brought tears to my eyes or a shiver up my backbone. The prose that Hoffman tucks away in the nooks and crannies of these pages not only inspire and delight, but they bring depth, heart and familiarity to these rough around the edges characters. It has hints of political and class strife like Ragtime but there is a love story here that I haven’t seen any of these works accomplish. It has that gloomy mood of the Broadway show Side Show (book by Bill Russell) mixed with that “freak” nature that made me love Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1989). It’s everything Water for Elephants aspired to be and just wasn’t. It’s everything that I wanted Night Circus to be.
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