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Review by Neil Mackay “WORDS, words, words, they’re all we have to go on,” Tom Stoppard wrote – half in melancholy, half in delight – in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Language, Stoppard tells us in his tragicomic take on the lives of two minor characters in Hamlet, is what defines us poor human creatures – it’s all that separates us from the beasts. Jon McGregor must have been listening. His new novel, Lean Fall Stand, may ostensibly tell of a terrible accident that befalls a team of Antarctic explorers and its cruel aftermath, but in truth this taut, elegant masterpiece explores the agony and ecstasy of what it means to be a human being, and the dreadful limitations of language when it comes to explaining the human condition. It’s not a dark book, though – the harrowing story is leavened by a sense of the exquisite joy which comes from struggling and sometimes almost succeeding in putting the right words to matters of the heart and soul. W

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