Dorothee E. Kocks
Autor de The Glass Harmonica
Sobre El Autor
Dorothee E. Kocks is a writer living in Salt Lake City and a member of the auxiliary faculty at the University of Utah
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Organizaciones
- University of Utah
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 14
- Popularidad
- #739,559
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 4
When Chiara arrives with Henry back in Portsmouth, NH and his Puritanical family, there are bumps in the road -- both in their path to marriage and, to some degree, in the writing. The complexity of relationships is not Kocks' forte, but she's marvellous in her descriptions of early American life, the beginnings of riverboat travel and entertainment (including its bawdy contraband), and the clashes of ideas, classes, and social mores that colored the growth of American traditions.
I don't think this novel is great literature, but it's great fun, and I found it vastly entertaining.… (más)