Reviews and Comments

From the book jacket:

Cricket Dibb, born on the American prairie, has no particular prospects or ambitions until, in grade school, he realizes he can draw. He soon meets a girl, one year older, Olympia Argyros, who is captivating and brilliant and far more worldly. Thus begins a sixty-five-year entwining of Cricket and Olympia, encompassing friendship, working partnership, and love affair.

Contrapposto is a moving and very funny novel about allies and art, and what it means to be an artist.

Free EPUB download from publisher www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111705446/html

The narrator of this audiobook, Dominic Hoffman, spoke to a class I was taking. After hearing Mr. Hoffman speak, I wanted to listen to the audiobook and was not disappointed - in fact, I enjoyed listening to the audio version more than reading the printed book.

SFPL speaker Paul Herman

permanent loan from D / June 2025

Enjoyed this so much

Because this book received the Booker Prize, I expected something different. There were some lyrical passages but overall I felt as distant from this book as the space station was from the earth.