Teresa's review
Rise and Shine: A Novel
by Anna Quindlen
Teresa's review
Rise and Shine: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
Teresa's review
rating:
Anna Quindlen writes this novel more as if she has a point to make than a story to tell. She manages to stretch the significance of a Janet-Jackson-Superbowl-esque incident far beyond its viability, all the while bashing us over the head with the ideas that our collective morality is purely for show, that rich people spend way too much time and money on dumb crap and that Manhattan society is... wait for it... mostly frivolous.
I'm not sure why she thinks she has anything new to contribute to the extensive mythology of a complex, center-of-the-universe New York City, but I do know I don't care. At all. Though maybe this is why the author keeps pushing the contrast between the narrator's social work in the Bronx and the excess of Manhattan's elite as though she attempting to define the word "juxtaposition": If she didn't, it would take the reader much less time to realize there is no plot or original contribution in the work.
I'm not sure why she thinks she has anything new to contribute to the extensive mythology of a complex, center-of-the-universe New York City, but I do know I don't care. At all. Though maybe this is why the author keeps pushing the contrast between the narrator's social work in the Bronx and the excess of Manhattan's elite as though she attempting to define the word "juxtaposition": If she didn't, it would take the reader much less time to realize there is no plot or original contribution in the work.
