The Last of Her Kind
by:
Sigrid Nunez (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374183813 (0374183813)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages no: 375
Edition language: English
A book so atrociously written that not even its intriguing premise could save it--it's a painful, overwritten example of stream-of-consciousness taken too far. Maybe if I were more interested in 60's politics I would have soldiered through.
I tend to avoid books set in the U.S. post-WWII. The ones that aspire to genuine literary merit tend toward pretention, high-handedness, and tedium. But The Last of Her Kind is different: it’s a well-written, thoughtful, thematically rich and, above all, an interesting book.In 1968, Georgette George...
Somehow this book manages to be very readable yet horrible. The storyline does not match up with the blurb; only peripheral characters are interesting and sympathetic; the whole thing was like like this character Georgette's journal - except that Georgette is the kind of shallow person that I run f...
What does it mean to live completely and uncompromisingly by your principles? This novel, a compelling dual portrait of two college roommates who meet as freshman in 1968, captures the personal dilemmas, group obsessions and cultural divides of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Coming from a rough, ...
Georgette George is a woman who had a bad childhood, but escapes to NYC and Barnard in the late sixties. For the rest of her life, she will be fascinated by her college roommate, Ann - a child of privilege, intent on making up for it in guilt and activism. This one almost reads like a memoir, and ...
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