The Cove
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857862624 (0857862626)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
War,
Southern
Lyrical, maybe. But "heart-rending," as the cover blurb suggests? Eh, not so much.I mean, the situation is sad. Laurel and Hank are outcasts in their Appalachian community, largely because they have the misfortune of living in The Cove, their family's homestead, a gloomy stretch of land where a larg...
In reviews I do my best not to just give my reactions, but the reasons for my reaction, so someone who might like or doesn't care about the things that bother me might still think despite a low rating that the book might be something worth trying, and despite a high rating might think, well, that do...
This book starts off very slowly. It took me a while to become invested in the characters. Once I did, I flew through the pages. In the prologue, which takes place in 1957, something is found during a final walk-through before the government floods the cove to become a lake, which informs the reade...
The cove is settled in the galèrest of all the galères (my sister and I call galères -the french for galley- the nowhere lands of the world.), and this is a case of get out of the cove before the cove gets you. It's the ass of the world, where Christ lost his hat, the fifth pine, except there are no...
No, thank you.
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