Kirsty Gunn's spellbinding third novel is a portrait of the small town of Featherstone and the interior lives of its inhabitants. Over the course o...
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Jun 25, 2010
Tom
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I'm dissappointed.
As usual, Gunn's prose is dazling and intoxicating. Addicting, even.
I got very comfortable in this book, and I think I'd like to go back.
But, near the end, she gets in the way. Her voice intrudes, like a boom mike or a dolly track that accidently got into frame in a movie and was never edited out.
I can read, Kirsty. I can feel. I can think. Please don't hit me over the head with your metaphores and symbolism. Let me work that out on my More...
As usual, Gunn's prose is dazling and intoxicating. Addicting, even.
I got very comfortable in this book, and I think I'd like to go back.
But, near the end, she gets in the way. Her voice intrudes, like a boom mike or a dolly track that accidently got into frame in a movie and was never edited out.
I can read, Kirsty. I can feel. I can think. Please don't hit me over the head with your metaphores and symbolism. Let me work that out on my More...
Feb 02, 2012
Sharon
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This book is shockenly poor. I got to page 60 of this book & had to give up. I found it confusing & all over the place & after 60 pages you'd think you be conecting with the characters but i'm afraid i didn't. poor
Jun 12, 2008
sisterimapoet
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I like Kirsty Gunn. She deserves more attention. I have been impressed by all of her novels and eagerly wait to see what she does next.
Set within one village over the course of a long weekend we see the impact on various lives by the supposed return of a long lost girl. Her reappearance draws attention to the cracks within many lives. And slowly but surely those cracks widen.
A great sense of growing tension throughout. But writing in collect and eloquent prose. I More...
Set within one village over the course of a long weekend we see the impact on various lives by the supposed return of a long lost girl. Her reappearance draws attention to the cracks within many lives. And slowly but surely those cracks widen.
A great sense of growing tension throughout. But writing in collect and eloquent prose. I More...
Mar 04, 2011
Southern Flower
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Weird pseudo-spiritual ramblings that are trying too hard - one of the wort books I have read.
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