Love Falls
by Esther Freud
published
June 2nd 2008
by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback, 288 pages
isbn
0747593191
(isbn13: 9780747593195)
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Read in June, 2008
A coming of age story of 17-year old English girl (Lara) who travels to Italy with her relatively unknown father. She meets the life in the fast lane , well-to-do Wiloboughy clan and the story goes from there. This is fairly quick read. I thought Esther did a beautiful job describing Sienna with wonderful sights, sounds and smells. However, some of the story line seems unsaid. This didn't bother me too much, but I can see where it could be annoying to others. In addition, there are a lot of...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
readers of fiction set in Italy
I picked this book up because it was by the author of <u>Hideous Kinky<u>, which was made into a movie starring Kate Winslet and because it was a coming of age story set in Italy. The main character in this book is Lara, a 17-yr-old on holiday with the father she barely knows, staying with a friend of his in a villa outside of Sienna. Lara gets swept along with a set of bored, rich people in their teens and twenties, to whom she is the latest plaything, falling "in love" wi...more
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Read in April, 2008
This book was frustrating because of the point-of-view of the narration. Although it was told in the third person, we only see and know what the heroine observes. It created a feeling of this stupid girl with big eyes who rarely speaks and is staring at everything and everyone rather than engaging in the activities described. I got the feeling that the author was trying to make the story "deep and complex." I just found it irritating. But perhaps that was the point - to witness the mot...more
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Read in January, 2008
This is the first book I've read by Esther Freud. She is the great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud! She is also the author of Hideous Kinky, which was made into a movie in the 90's starring Kate Winslet. The story is about a 17 year old girl's coming of age. She is invited to travel to Italy with her aging and emotionally distant father, Lambert. The lush descriptions of the Italian countryside and mouth watering sumptious foods allows the reader to experience a taste of Italy. Ms. Freud crafts a...more
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Read in May, 2008
Well, I bought the book basically because of the title -- 'Love Falls'. Like most of you guys thought, I thought that it also meant like falling in love or something, but I later found out that it meant a waterfall which is named Love.
The book was kind of interesting especially when it talks about the main character's affair with the millionaire's son. The other parts weren't really interesting, at least for me, as it talks about horse racing and stuff.
The book was kind of interesting especially when it talks about the main character's affair with the millionaire's son. The other parts weren't really interesting, at least for me, as it talks about horse racing and stuff.
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Read in May, 2007
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riders of airplanes
I discovered this extremely diverting novel in an English-language bookstore in Paris, and thank God I did: how wonderful to disappear into the imagination of a tan, gorgeous teenage girl vacationing with her mysterious father and assorted British aristocrats in a Tuscan villa. Food, sex, swimming, and horse-racing all lusciously rendered here. Esther Freud, whose books do not appear on the shelves of my Brooklyn bookstore, is probably best known on this side of the Atlantic for her first novel ...more
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Read in October, 2008
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book clubrecommends it for: no one
Underdeveloped, shallow characters, too many blanks to fill in. Didn't like the book much. Did have good scenery descriptions though.
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Read in November, 2007
Sadly, this is the only book I've read recently. Fortunately, I enjoyed it immensely. I've never read this author before (she also wrote 'Hideous Kinky' and several other books), but I'll be making it a point to catch up on her previous work. Two important locations in the book are London and Italy--having read the book while in London after exploring Italy was lucky and definitely a case of right book right time.
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Read in July, 2008
a young girl joins her father on a trip to italy to visit a friend. the girl does not ordinarily live with her father thus this being a opportunity to know him.the characters she meets are intersting and different from anyone she has known before. she faslls in love at love falls. there is an event in the book which i wish was left out.. the wriiting about italy was beautiful.
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The author is Sigmund Freud's great-granddaughter, and she showed a nice eye for detail except there were many loose ends in the plot. I loved the Tuscan countryside as a backdrop for these British characters. The Charles and Diana wedding worked as a metaphor that was never fully realized, but it was fun to read the Brits perspective of the spectacle.
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let me preface this by saying i loved,loved,loved hideous kinky but here she is psuedo bertolucci with the stealing beauty and eugh,rape, why…i hate books with rape, especially ones that treat it in a lighthearted manner as if it is part of being a woman, and what's with the knowingness at the end? the main character is denser than a redwood.
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Read in April, 2008
Author is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund, daughter of Lucian.
I picked up this book b/c I liked the movie adaptation of her earlier novel, Hideous Kinky. Middle-class English girl gets caught up in the social mores, or lack thereof, of the uppercrust. So-so book; the 16-20-year-old crowd would love it.
I picked up this book b/c I liked the movie adaptation of her earlier novel, Hideous Kinky. Middle-class English girl gets caught up in the social mores, or lack thereof, of the uppercrust. So-so book; the 16-20-year-old crowd would love it.
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Read in March, 2008
I'm not really sure how I felt about this book. I liked the story, but I thought it was very underdeveloped. Also underdeveloped were the characters. I didn't feel like I got to know wny of them, including the protagonist, Lara. The ending managed to be abrupt and too tidy, all at the same time.
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