Jessica's review
The News from Paraguay: A Novel by Lily Tuck
Jessica's review
rating:
bookshelves: partly-read
status: Read in April, 2007 — I have a copy to sell/swap
rating:
bookshelves: partly-read
status: Read in April, 2007 — I have a copy to sell/swap
Too gory for me. Nothing I read resounded with me at all. I am fascinated by the glimpse I got of 19th-century Paraguay, but I think I'll seek out other sources to find out more. You know, sources that have details other than dogs getting beaten to death and people's arms getting chopped off. Maybe that was the reality for that place and time, but I can only stomach gore like that if I'm devoted to the characters and impressed with the writing, neither of which applied here.
