The Color of Light

By William Goldman,

Book cover of The Color of Light

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A young writer obsessed by the past finds himself involved in an odyssey of violence, tragedy, and a search for a murderer

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1 author picked The Color of Light as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I generally don’t enjoy works of fiction that feature writers as their main characters. The process of writing, while influenced by life, is nevertheless a solitary process, difficult to capture in an interesting and meaningful way. William Goldman manages to do that, mostly by focusing on the backstory of story, on the flow and emotions of existence that contribute not only to the tales a writer tells, but their need to do so. The Color of Light feels both fantastical and real, steeped in preposterous events and genuine emotion, in a way that traces both the artistic process and the…

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