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has sat on my shelves for months;
now that I see how wonderful this
author is, I must read it, too.
"How can I trust reality when
the phenomenal world appears to
be playing tricks on me at
every turn?" Eliza tells us.
And, indeed, it does. Her mother
and father disappear. Time
shifts. Her brother changes
into a dog. Just what is real?
As Eliza says over and over,
"Appearances can be deceiving."
A wonderful book I never would
have read had it not been for
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has sat on my shelves for months;
now that I see how wonderful this
author is, I must read it, too.
"How can I trust reality when
the phenomenal world appears to
be playing tricks on me at
every turn?" Eliza tells us.
And, indeed, it does. Her mother
and father disappear. Time
shifts. Her brother changes
into a dog. Just what is real?
As Eliza says over and over,
"Appearances can be deceiving."
A wonderful book I never would
have read had it not been for
BookCrossing. Recommen ...more
Vă recomand cartea dacă sunteți iubitori de romane fantastice, de acțiune bizară, de personaje și mai ciudate. Cu toate astea, nu vă veți plictisi nicio secundă pentru că veți fi ocupați să călătoriți, la modul imaginar, alături de celelalte personaje ale cărții.
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Too clever by half and too much of a big reveal at the end. The story is fairly dark with evil lurking in every corner, meanness at every turn, but Atkinson is such a wordsmith that you mostly don't mind. There is a very sneaky plot that is unfolded but I wish she had scattered more of the unfolding throughout the book rather than leaving it all to the very end to overwhelm.
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Touches on some of the same concepts Atkinson later fleshed out to such heights in the superlative Life After Life, but draws the focus to a family and its historical roots. Isobel remains something of a cipher throughout, but her brother Charles shines out with his intense longing to understand his mother's disappearance.
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Even though Atkinson switches time periods and does not tell the story in order, adds fantasy elements and adopts several different endings only to change them later on in the book, (all elements that drive me mad) I loved this book and all of its oddball characters
Aug 17, 2010
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