To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed po...
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Oct 07, 2010
Cheryl
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Slowmoving, convoluted plot. There are brief spurts of beautiful prose, but not nearly enough to keep me excited about coming back to this book.
What I learned: it helps (in a modern novel anyway) to have some physical description. These characters were even flatter because I could not conjure up an image. BAH.
What I learned: it helps (in a modern novel anyway) to have some physical description. These characters were even flatter because I could not conjure up an image. BAH.
Feb 18, 2008
Katie
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An interesting take on the way we relate to one another in society, between friendships, families, lovers, and all the tangled in-between relationships, not-quite friend but more than acquaintance work colleague, stepmother that was more motherly to you than your own mom, but that you can't quite look at that way, boss that becomes lover, then friend.
I found myself a little annoyed with the writer's style at the beginning, mainly because it made me slightly uncomfortable - but I had More...
I found myself a little annoyed with the writer's style at the beginning, mainly because it made me slightly uncomfortable - but I had More...
Jun 21, 2007
Maryanne
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Beattie has changed--which I suppose is human and inevitable; however, the writing in Another You was not the spare, sharp, insightful prose I remember of her earlier work but almost its opposite. Paragraphs go on for pages, dialogue is banal, and characters are unconvincing and hyperbolic. a disappointment (especially since mine is a signed copy).
May 22, 2008
Karley
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I got halfway through this book before I realized that I knew the author, Ann Beatty. Her descriptions of Key West were...colorful.
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