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Inside - Alix Ohlin
Inside
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“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee“Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney“Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams.” —Heidi... show more
“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee“Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney“Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams.” —Heidi Julavits  From the highly acclaimed author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories, a resonant novel of entwined lives and a woman with an unsettling ability to broach the innermost dynamics of the people around her.      When Grace, an exceedingly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man who has just failed to hang himself, her instinct to help kicks in immediately. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward. In the meantime, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away from home and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. And Mitch, Grace’s ex-husband, who is a therapist as well, leaves the woman he’s desperately in love with to attend to a struggling native community in the bleak Arctic. We follow these four compelling, complex characters from Montreal and New York to Hollywood and Rwanda, each of them with a consciousness that is utterly distinct and urgently convincing. With razor-sharp emotional intelligence, Inside poignantly explores the many dangers as well as the imperative of making ourselves available to—and responsible for—those dearest to us.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780307596925 (0307596923)
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
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madbkwm
madbkwm rated it
This book was really close to a five star rating. Ultimately I did not feel like there was quite enough differentiation between the characters and so it ended up as a four star.As an amateur actor (and especially after just finishing Micheal Green's Art of Coarse acting), I liked some of Anne's com...
CKs Book Reads
CKs Book Reads rated it
3.0 Inside
It was okay, but I didn't bother to finish it. I know why would I rate it a 3 then? Well I think other people will like it.
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it
4.0 Inside
I like a book that explores human emotion and how one deals with trauma. This book handles the subject very well and shows how people deal with trauma in different ways.Tug is haunted by his time in Africa and finds it extremely difficult to cope in the comfortable world. Annie struggles with her ...
wesleylau
wesleylau rated it
3.5 stars. Understated yet enjoyable book with very real characters, but no strong plot.I liked the way this book was written. I don’t remember the author going into much detail describing the characters, but I found it very easy to imagine these characters as real people to the point where halfway ...
mtw1tter
mtw1tter rated it
2.0 Inside (Borzoi Books)
The writing was fine. I just didn't feel anything for the characters or the plot at all.
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