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There were things that I liked about this “novel “ in three parts. In the first part, “Folly”, I especially loved the literary references, the music, and I loved the baseball talk. Having lived in the Boston area I definitely understand the Red Sox - Yankees rivalry and we lived there in 2004 when t Leggi tutto

3.5 stars, although my thoughts on this one are a bit asymmetrical. It’s a book of themes, with asymmetry as the centerpiece. It’s broken into three parts of uneven length, tenuously connected to each other. The first part features an asymmetrical relationship between the narrator, a young woman name Leggi tutto

Really good, interesting book whose structural ambitions are partly disguised by the directness of its prose. This is functionally two novellas and then a short transcript, (one that works a bit too hard to round off the novel). Part one, which I really liked, tells the story of Alice’s relationship Leggi tutto

No lame summary can possibly prepare you for the deep narrative pleasures this book serves up. Part 1: FOLLY is set in Upper West Side (Manhattan). It’s the touching and at times hilarious story of a February-December romance, if we can call it that, between a writer of literary fiction in his sevent Leggi tutto

For her part, Alice was starting to consider really rather seriously whether a former choirgirl from Massachusetts might be capable of conjuring the consciousness of a Muslim man. “Great American Novel” =”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.” Lionel Shriver (Independent 2010) I s Leggi tutto

Three stories – well two really, one being told in two parts. 1. A young female editor has a sexual relationship with an eminent, ageing writer. We are told little of the woman other than that we directly observe. What we observe is that she seems rather naive and lonely and does little other than me Leggi tutto