By Blood. Ellen Ullman
by:
Ellen Ullman (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781908968128 (1908968125)
Publish date: March 1st 2013
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Germany
And immediately a chasm opened between the patient's last words and those still to come. Was the woman named Michal Gerson truly her mother? What was my evidence? Initials. A date. Historical patterns. Almost nothing. The laughing voice of Mrs. Knobloch mocked me: Who am I to tell you what to believ...
I just couldn't get into it. The narrator was just too boring and creepy.
This book got a lot of good reviews but I'm afraid I just didn't like it at all. I found the narrative device to be way too contrived. I found the narrator to be so creepy as to be repulsive to me. Each of the main characters was filled with so much self-loathing that I could not muster up any de...
Ellen Ullman's "By Blood" is a slow starter, and I must confess that I almost abandoned the book. However, once it got going, the book had me enthralled.The first-person narrator, an unnamed male professor, is under investigation at his university during the early 1970s. He rents an office in whic...
Bleah. Not my kind of book, not my kind of writer.
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