by Emily St. John Mandel, Morgan Hallett
There's something about Emily St. John Mandel's writing that appeals to me, an atmosphere of quiet wistfulness that I first felt when I read Station Eleven and drew me to purchase this one. The blurb on the cover calls it "elegant and hypnotic", and I agree. Like Station Eleven, this novel uses mult...
2014’s Station Eleven captivated me with its story of life after a pandemic flu caused the collapse of society, and The Lola Quartet, an earlier novel by the same author, shares many of Station Eleven’s story elements, including a life during crisis theme, though here the disasters are on a smaller ...
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel is another of those novels I picked up because something about the title and the cover (there I go again, initially judging a book by its cover) intrigued me. It turned out to be a pleasure to read - a well-paced mystery exploring all those complicated issue...
This story is just one long string of unlikely coincidences, but it must not have bothered me too much because I read the entire thing in just a few hours. I think Gavin's downward slide began when he was too lazy call the landlord to fix the leaky shower. Every night while he was sleeping, that run...
Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is an expose of sorts that focuses on a group of four high school friends and how their life turns out ten years after graduation. This is not one of those stories where the unpopular kid becomes wealthy and all of the jocks and cheerleaders get their comeupp...
I must say that I enjoyed the "mystery" part of the story over the jazz references. I also loved the overall "feel" of the book from language used to the settings. I also loved the author's masterful use of weaving present tense with the past and what led up to the present, particularly with Anna an...
Four friends form a jazz band in High School, the eponymous Lola Quartet....add one more (the drummer's step sister/trumpet player's girlfriend) and you have the cast of characters playing in this storyYou also have a pregnancy-kept-secret, a runaway, a theft of mucho $$$$ from a meth dealer, a ruin...
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