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Jen
Aug 25, 2008 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: new-york, zz2008-read, fiction, brooklyn, married-life, rich-folk
Kirsti described this book as claustrophobic, and she sure is right! It reminded me of an Edward Albee play. The book kept me intrigued, there were some very well-worded perceptions throughout, and I was interested by the gentrification of Brooklyn in the late 60s. However, I don't quite agree with Franzen's introduction where he states the book is "soaring above every other work in American realist fiction since the Second World War." It might've been a revelation in its time, but I found it so ...more
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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Nov 19, 2012 added it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: women-s-fiction
Woman and her husband. Woman keeps feeding a stray cat. The cat bites the woman.
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Mar 20, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorite-women-writers, new-york-fiction
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