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This is a stark little novel - both in the desolate winter setting and the lack of options due to poverty and then the horrible ending where everybody is just miserable.
I spent most of the story thinking that the accident that Ethan was in was the result of him trying to murder his wife. That, sadly, wasn't the case. ...more
I spent most of the story thinking that the accident that Ethan was in was the result of him trying to murder his wife. That, sadly, wasn't the case. ...more
I liked Ethan Frome the first time I read it. I loved it on this, my second reading. The prose is beautiful, and the setting is wonderfully described: "The cold was less sharp than earlier in the day and a thick fleecy sky threatened snow for the morrow. Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue. In an hour or two the moon would push up over the ridge behind the farm, burn a gold-edged rent in the clouds, and then be swallowed by them. A mournful peace hung on
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Apr 02, 2014
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This book is as bleak as the landscape it's set in...It was a good book and a quick read, don't get me wrong. But this is Wharton. Don't expect any warm fuzzies. 17/1,001
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May 13, 2011
Charisma
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May 22, 2011
Rosemary
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it was amazing
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Dec 22, 2012
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Sorobai
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Sep 10, 2021
Alec
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it was amazing
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