House of Sand and Fog PB
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786232369 (0786232366)
Publish date: September 1st 2002
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 613
Edition language: English
It was ok, I was really only very engaged at the climax of the book. Otherwise the book was depressing without having any novel meaning for me.
This book was one of the most satisfying modern tragedies I have ever read. Dubus's prose is both very good and (mostly) unobtrusive. Because I couldn't anticipate the ending, I had to keep reading, and then I couldn't stop even when a the situation moved to a point from which it clearly couldn't be...
I'm just going to say one thing about this book :I hated Kathy with a passion . She was a bitch . Almost ruined the story for me .
After finishing House of Sand and Fog, I read some reviews on Kindle. Most gave four or five stars but scattered among those were a few one and two stars with comments such as 'the sale of the house could have been prevented, the premise just wasn't plausible and landscape description was wrong.' ...
3 1/2 stars