The Round House
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781472108166 (1472108167)
Publish date: May 8th 2013
Publisher: Corsair
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Kindred's Reading Challenge: #8 A National Book Award Winner
infuriating, heartbreaking, and occasionally hilarious.
Reading some of the reviews, I think that I might be the only one not really loving this book?I mean, I almost feel bad writing that, because of the theme of the book, and because of the afterword, but the book just didn’t grab me in any noteworthy way.It’s about Joe, a 13 year old boy in 1988. And ...
Depressing and emotionally difficult, but extremely well-written, particularly the combination of events in the novel and somewhat related folk tales. Great pacing.
The writing style put me off early on in this book as well as the lack of quotation marks (a "quirk" I have not come across before and really did not like). Getting used to the dialogue flow as the narrator recalled conversations, having to go back and re-read once I realized that several people we...
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