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The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas (The Train Now Departing and When 'The Mousetrap' Closes)
by
Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
Subtle and perceptive, atmospheric and lyrical, these two novellas -- The Train Now Departing and When 'The Mousetrap' Closes -- combine the singular characters and richly textured narrative that readers have grown to expect from this acclaimed author.
Mass Market Paperbound, 208 pages
Published
June 12th 2001
by New American Library
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Two short stories about two different, but similar, women. Both are mature, lonely, quite-living but curious. Both meet mysterious men in a public place, strike up unlikely friendships, that unsurprisingly turn out to be one-sided. I related to these women in their frustrating but compelling friendships with aloof men more more than I would like. It was difficult to place the stories in period, until she let some little snippet drop about current events -- very tiny snippets, easily missed. I lo...more
Well.......I guess I've now read all of Martha Grimes books. These two novellas are it.
The first one kind of bored me and the only thing that saved it was the ending.
The second one was predictable, but I liked it even if it wasn't very nice. Which goes along with
what the male character says to the woman - I don't think you'd like it. But I did.
One of the best, underrated novellas I've read. Deserves more than just being put on sale or buried under stacks of unworthy other titles.
Consisted of two novellas on the subject of lonely women. The stories were well written and the characters so accurately portrayed as Grimes can do. The stories were not gripping, but pleasant quick reads.
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Well-crafted novellas about characters with small and contained lives that still hold exquisite curiosity about the larger world.
Booooring.
Too long and drawn out, goes nowhere, but maybe that was the point.
I wasn't the biggest fan of this book, but luckily is was a short read. It has a depressing tone all the way through it. Maybe a person has to dig in a little deeper to really understand the greatness of the story, but I wasn't left wanting to do so.
This is a tiny book although it took me a while to get through it, although then I couldn't stop thinking about it. I wonder what the author's motivation for these stories was?
Ms Grimes' women cooly assess the men in their lives and the men fall far short of the women themselves.
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Martha Grimes is an American author of detective fiction.
She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State Universit...more
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She was born May 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to D.W., a city solicitor, and to June, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State Universit...more
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