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This is one of those books that makes you so sad but also makes you feel like you had no choice but to read it. It's beautiful and thoughtful and Cunningham does a great job of bringing all the characters together, despite their disparate lifestyles and eras. I will be reading more of his books and even watching this movie.
I can see where this book would be frustrating for some people. I liked how the first-person narrators fit together, but they are similar. Also you have to appreciate more of ...more
I can see where this book would be frustrating for some people. I liked how the first-person narrators fit together, but they are similar. Also you have to appreciate more of ...more
Interweaving three apparently unconnected stories taking place in different places and times, Cunningham writes in a style very reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's. She is in fact one of the three characters. Only as the various stories gradually unfold do all the allusions to Woolf's character Mrs. Dalloway and to other references to Woolf's work, life, and death slowly begin to fall into place, and the interconnections weren't completely clear to me until the very end. It's a masterful homage to W
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