i've had 'an equal music' on my hope to/maybe list for a while. didn't read
'suitable boy', but vikram seth wrote a book in the '80s called 'golden
gate', a somewhat light northern california soap opera, except for the fact
that whole novel was written as a series of 14-line sonnets (that may be
redundant). they weren't in the typical shakespeare rhyme scheme, they were
in the same scheme as 'eugene onegin'.
it sounds like a parlor trick, and reading it felt like that for about half
of the first chapter, then the story grabbed me. yes, i looked at each
sonnet as i read, and marvelled how he could keep doing it, but that would
get my defenses down and i'd get to know the characters better, and care
more for them. a really lovely, favorite book.
patrick
