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Exquisitely drawn!
I read this years ago, I honestly can't say when, but this book evoked images that I still remembered before reading again. The images I have of this book are winter, cold, snow, bleak. I will always think of Frome from the first sight the engineer had of him.
it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.
We learn that Frome had gone to a tech school in Worcester. My Mom was born in Worcester, and she grew up in small New England v ...more
it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.
We learn that Frome had gone to a tech school in Worcester. My Mom was born in Worcester, and she grew up in small New England v ...more
Thought it a great story but felt sorry for Ethan and Mattie.
If you love Edith Wharton for her clever and witty way of discussing class struggles for the upper classes in New York -- this is not the book for you. Ethan Frome is a quiet look at a struggling marriage, an unhappy man, and the dire consequences that occur when he acknowledges his desire to escape. It is a deeply sad book, with loneliness on every page.
When the book opens we meet Ethan Frome. Although he is in his 50s he seems to be much older. He is a solitary, quiet and miserable man. A woma ...more
When the book opens we meet Ethan Frome. Although he is in his 50s he seems to be much older. He is a solitary, quiet and miserable man. A woma ...more
Not what I expected! Ethan is longing for Mattie, but he’s Married to Zeena. A wonderfully written short story. “You’ve had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome.”
"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Sta
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This is an unforgettable book! I even went back to certain pages to see if I had read that correctly.. so surprised. I loved it. (Realized I never wrote a review!)
Feb 14, 2013
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