Blackberry wine by joanne harris5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, six "Specials"-a gift from his old friend Joe-function as Jay's magical elixir. He spends his time writing second-rate science fiction, leading a hollow media life, and drinking: "Not to forget, but to remember, to open up the past and find himself there again." Yet the nice, expensive wines don't do the trick. Harris's protagonist, Jay Mackintosh, is a former literary star, now sadly stalled. ![]() ![]() There are, of course, some less vinous characters in the novel. But as the title suggests, she's shifted her focus from food to drink, choosing a half-dozen bottles of homemade plonk as the catalyst for her "layman's alchemy." And even the narrator is no human being but a faintly tannic Fleurie 1962: "A pert, garrulous wine, cheery and little brash, with a pungent taste of blackcurrant!" She returns to the same location for Blackberry Wine. Joanne Harris's first novel, Chocolat, was set in the sleepy French village of Lansquenet, where enchantment, romance, and soft-centered truths issued from the local confectioner's shop. ![]()
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