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Wolf hollow book cover6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since Wolf Hollow’s publication, Wolk has written two further novels, including, Beyond the Bright Sea (2017) and Echo Mountain (2020). However, Donnelly argues that Wolf Hollow’s most distinctive feature, is its use of “spare, simple language perfectly suited to its subject and setting.” She claims that Wolk’s adoption of first-person, past-tense, expertly balances “a mood of aching regret with an electric sense of ominousness.” In her New York Times review of May 5, 2016, Jennifer Donnelly praises Wolf Hollow for its unsparing treatment of “dark truths,” most potently that “doing right can go very wrong.” Donnelly compares Wolk’s presentation of the relationship between Annabelle, a “precociously perceptive girl”, and Toby, “a damaged, misunderstood recluse”, to that of the main characters in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]()
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