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The Horse Boy is saved from a terminal case of blockbusteritis by two things. The first is Isaacson's brutal emotional honesty. At moments he finds his son's existence, and its effect on the life he had envisaged for himself, simply intolerable, and he doesn't flinch from telling us so.
The second is the excellence of his writing. Executed with a trace more sentiment, a fraction less ironic intelligence, a degree less fine observation, this book would be unbearable. But somewhere within himself Isaacson has found the rigour to keep in balance his mysticism, his hope and love for his son, and his sheer infuriation at the outrageous misfortune of Rowan's condition. The result is an elegant, affecting narrative that contrives to transform a riverside poo - Rowan's first controlled bowel movement - into a triumph of the human spirit.
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