‘Dartmouth Park’ Drags Modern Male Estrangement

Dartmouth Park is frighteningly adept at knocking the reader off their pedestal of 21st-century assumptions

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Anyone who’s had a panic attack (I sympathize, and I’m sorry) will recognize what’s happening in the opening scene of Rupert Thomson’s latest novel, Dartmouth Park. Some benign event or observation…