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The Last of Her Kind - Community Reviews back

by Sigrid Nunez
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moving under skies
moving under skies rated it 10 years ago
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.
Merle
Merle rated it 12 years ago
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...
Simcha-Sophie
Simcha-Sophie rated it 14 years ago
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...
Reflections
Reflections rated it 14 years ago
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, ...
cindywho
cindywho rated it 15 years ago
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 ...
Ko
Ko rated it 17 years ago
Too early yet to rate this, but so far, the two leading ladies are annoying the ever loving crap out of me.
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