Evening Class
by:
Maeve Binchy (author)
Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organizes an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue,...
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Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. In Evening Class, Binchy zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organizes an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighborhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed.
Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends--you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way.
źródło opisu: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41967.Evening_Class
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0752809636
Publish date: 1996 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Orion
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
So I apologize in advance for not reviewing these books in the order of publication. I tend to go back again and again to my tried and true Binchy novels. I decided this year I will aim to at least post reviews for all of the books that I have read. Over the Thanksgiving holiday I enjoyed re-reading...
There are many different types of books, for different times and situations. Sometimes I want to be informed,enlightened,or challenged...and sometimes I want to 'comfort read', much as I might want to 'comfort eat' some chocolate or a delicious cake. This book is perfect for just such a time. Hot ba...
There are many different types of books, for different times and situations. Sometimes I want to be informed,enlightened,or challenged...and sometimes I want to 'comfort read', much as I might want to 'comfort eat' some chocolate or a delicious cake. This book is perfect for just such a time. Hot ba...
It was OK. I did find that I lost interest along the way sometimes. It may not have been the story's fault though. I have had my mind on other things.
easy to read fluff. she doesn't tend to write about characters that i find terribly interesting and i feel like she does this weird thing where she just gives us this random snippet about her character's lives and nothing really happens in her books, but it's unoffensive and quick reading.
6 years ago
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