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Sarah moss ghost wall6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you’re wondering which novelist will reach the tipping point next, take my advice: put your money on Sarah Moss. ![]() Of course, it’s easy to identify the writers who have taken the second path once they have hit household-name status the real trick is spotting them before they get there. Hilary Mantel is an obvious example Tessa Hadley another Kamila Shamsie a third. The second is slower, quieter, less sensational but ultimately perhaps more sustainable: the steady brightening of a reputation over the course of several books, until finally it’s impossible to imagine a time when the author wasn’t a fixed point in the heavens. The first (and undeniably the ritzier) involves the publication of a novel, generally a debut, that bursts forth in such a blaze that its author remains permanently backlit by it. F or novelists, there are two paths to a place in the literary firmament. ![]()
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