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(review written in 2001)
I greatly enjoyed this book. I loved the way it featured several different writing styles: the novel within a novel, the newspaper/magazine articles, and Iris' narrative. The book included several hints of what was really going on without ever truly coming out and directly saying it until the end. I hated having to put it down. This is the best book that I have read in a while!! ...more
I greatly enjoyed this book. I loved the way it featured several different writing styles: the novel within a novel, the newspaper/magazine articles, and Iris' narrative. The book included several hints of what was really going on without ever truly coming out and directly saying it until the end. I hated having to put it down. This is the best book that I have read in a while!! ...more
Iris is the narrator of this story; she is an old woman when we meet her, barely able to hold herself together. We know from the beginning that there is a lot of tragedy in this book. We know about three deaths in the first 50 pages or so: Iris's sister Laura, her husband Richard, and her daughter Aimée. (What an unfortunate name, by the way!) And it's no plot spoiler to reveal that Iris and Laura's mother dies when they are children, leaving them practically abandoned with a father that pays li
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This book is devastating. (In that good way.)
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