Man Walks Into a Room
by:
Nicole Krauss (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B000FBJAWI
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
this book is gorgeous. i absolutely loved the first third for both the writing and the story, then the story sort of fell off a bit for me. it picked up with the last third. but the writing. the writing never fell off at all. from beginning to end it is just superb. and as to the story - i was...
A book better suited for someone of another mind. Or, perhaps, perfectly suited for me: for I do not forget what I should, and invented what should have been buried.Samson was not someone you rooted for. Anna, his forlorn wife, and Donald, his aged pal, were the only sympathetic characters in this d...
I read her History of Love and was blown away by the sheer poetry of her words so I decided to try this out. This was an earlier work and while it does deal with some of the more interesting aspects of memory and human relationships, I felt that it lacked direction and drama. I was moved to empathiz...
If I hadn't read History of Love, I probably would have given this book four stars. And if I could give half-stars, I would give it three and a half. Because it's very tenderly written, and really very good, but her second novel spoiled me for this one. I have high hopes for her third! When is that ...
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