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I read this on the heels of "The Waves," and enjoyed both but found this to be a bit more work. It spans decades and threw me at the beginning with more than one name for some of the characters in the LARGE Pargiter family.
I enjoyed Woolf's take on the passage of time. Sometimes it drags, and sometimes the years fly by. I loved the slowed down time of the party at the end, and how frustrated North got answering the same questions over and over about the farm in Africa.
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I enjoyed Woolf's take on the passage of time. Sometimes it drags, and sometimes the years fly by. I loved the slowed down time of the party at the end, and how frustrated North got answering the same questions over and over about the farm in Africa.
I loved her description of ...more
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A book which gives you the chance to get to know a series of characters over a number of years. Most of the characters are part of the Pallieter family and starts in the 1880's ending in the 1930's. Some get married and have children, but time and again they meet up and we're updated on what has happened in the intervening years.
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