3 Lives
Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.
Clear, carefully crafted stories of 3 women, whose relatively ordinary lives and minds Stein invests with extraordinary interest. Excellent entree to author's later work.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394701530 (0394701534)
Publish date: May 12th 1958
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Mélanctha Herbert perdait toujours ce qu'elle avait en voulant avoir tout ce qu'elle voyait. On lâchait toujours Mélanctha alors qu'elle ne lâchait pas les autres.
I thought the first story - "The Good Anna" - was quite alright, and I sort of liked the last story - "The Gentle Lena". Had the novel consisted of just these two stories, I probably would have given it three stars. The use of repetition was interesting, and unusual, and even if I've seen the techni...