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Is the latest genre the fictionalized stories of the wives of famous men? There seems to be a new one released every week. In Nancy Horan's second novel she takes on the story of Fanny van de Grift Osbourne who left her philandering husband and moved with her three children from San Francisco to Belgium to study art. Upon arriving, however, she discovers that the art school she wants to attend doesn't accept women, and then her youngest son falls ill with tuberculosis and dies. Fanny is bereft a
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Under The Wide and Starry Sky, by Nancy Horan.
Horan, once again, tells a famous love story based, this time, on Robert Louis Stevenson and the American divorcee, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne who becomes his wife. This is a long , long, long, book which dragged tremendously for me and simply never gelled. I loved Horan's Loving Frank", but this novel did not measure up or hold my interest. The last section of the novel is the strongest ,in my opinion, where the Samoan setting and characters come m ...more
Horan, once again, tells a famous love story based, this time, on Robert Louis Stevenson and the American divorcee, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne who becomes his wife. This is a long , long, long, book which dragged tremendously for me and simply never gelled. I loved Horan's Loving Frank", but this novel did not measure up or hold my interest. The last section of the novel is the strongest ,in my opinion, where the Samoan setting and characters come m ...more
Jan 04, 2015
Toni Moore
marked it as to-read
Jul 19, 2013
LK
marked it as to-read
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