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Cargando... After This (2006)por Alice McDermott
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i really love the way she writes. i am not sure that i love this book or what she's doing, but i almost didn't notice that until i was near the end, because of the way she puts words on the page. i think if she were to write a book with a plot or characters that i could really relate to, that i would absolutely love it. (as far as this one goes, i'm not sure the characters are as fully developed as i'd like, and certainly i didn't care much about any of them or what happened to them. it was told as an overview, as well, without much of the detail about how incidents in a life are dealt with or handled; it's almost a cold appraisal of living. the details given aren't important, and the ones missing are crucial. so from that perspective, i'd have preferred she had written this differently. but the way she wrote it? stellar. and alone enough for 3.25 stars.) In linked vignettes, we follow the Keane family from Mary and John meeting after World War 2 to the children growing up and experiencing Vietnam and the beginnings of the sexual revolution. This was a quiet sort of story that I spent most of the book not sure if I really liked it or not. The format gives a sort of distance from characters and events - we're given a very domestic scene with most of the emphasis on the experiences of the women of the family and though there are some snapshots of the boys, large experiences such as Vietnam are told more from the perspective of those left behind. There was more general commentary on changes in family life, religious outlook, "the calm before the storm" as one of my book club participants called it. This isn't a particular family with characters you want to know, this is your average Catholic family on Long Island, and the author leaves it up to the reader to fill in the blanks, perhaps from his or her own experiences. It's not a book I'd make a point of rereading, but McDermott can certainly write some lovely sentences and creates some memorable images, so I would try another book by her. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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