Five Quarters of the Orange
by:
Joanne Harris (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781585471379 (1585471372)
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Center Point
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
War,
Contemporary,
France,
World War II,
Fiction,
Historical
Rather a melancholy read.Library copy
Throughout the story, my opinion of several characters wavered back and forth between positive and negative emotions. Often, the characters seemed so manipulative, so immature, so cruel and mindless, that it seemed there was no room for kindness or compassion on the pages, and I wondered where the s...
Throughout the story, my opinion of several characters wavered back and forth between positive and negative emotions. Often, the characters seemed so manipulative, so immature, so cruel and mindless, that it seemed there was no room for kindness or compassion on the pages, and I wondered where the s...
I enjoyed this book but the children seemed so much older than they were. I read this explanation by Laura Merrill Miller for their cruelty: "But five quarters? There is no such thing – there we have the logic of children: split an orange five ways and what do you get? Five quarters. It’s a subtle r...
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