There it was, a mildly battered hardcover at the grocery store in the midst of a cardboard box full of discounted romance novels and get-rich-quick books. It was at the top near the edge like it had been trying to escape. I couldn't bear to leave it there, so I brought it home where it will have bet...
Not an easy book but very much worth the effort. It grips by portraying the harsh consequences of the ugly realities of history on it's interesting and honorable characters. It's an eye opener to how unfairly America has acted in some of it's most difficult moments and a reminder that we need to sta...
The story is told as the collected journals of Harrison Shepherd, put together after his death by his secretary and friend Violet Brown. Beginning with his childhood, (just before WorldWar2), as his mexican mother leaves his american father and takes him with her back to mexico. Harrison writes hi...
A novel set in two countries, the United States and Mexico. Characters include: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Trotsky, Roosevelt, Hoover, McCarthy, and more. Based on historical events, this is a soaring novel full of facts and fiction. Wonderful.
Kingsolver's best book since The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna is the story of a diffident, unassuming man who is thrust unwillingly onto the centre stage of history. Harrison Shepherd, is born in America but raised in Mexico by his half American, half Mexican mother, a woman who is temperamentally d...
Read as an audiobook narrated by the author. The story revolves around a number of empty centers, much like illumination around a manuscript page. Many events and elements recur usefully and enjoyably. The tone shifts at about Book 4 in a set of writings, mostly news articles, that struck a sour not...
This was brilliant. The characters are all well-drawn. The fictional Harrison Shepherd is a wonderful observer, I finished this novel whilst a dramatisation of Charles Isherwood’s Goodbye Berlin was performed on Radio 4, and the line ‘I am a camera, observing’ seems also lined to Shepherd. He observ...
With the Poisonwood Bible being one of my favourite reads, I have been looking forward to reading this for ages. What a crashing disappointment. Frankly I have read better books about the Mexican revolution, Trotsky's sojourn in Mexico, Freida Kahlo, about the time surrounding Nixon's unamerican act...
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