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I started this one and then set it aside, uncertain if I felt like finishing it. I lugged it to Baltimore with me, knowing I would likely not have time to read it, because some of it is set there.
This is a novel about family memory and legacy, and goes back and forth between a somewhat fictional "Mike" interviewing his grandfather on his death bed and scenes in the history of his grandfather's life. Sometimes it feels like Gravity's Rainbow fanfic, especially all the V-2 bits. And I'm not sure ...more
This is a novel about family memory and legacy, and goes back and forth between a somewhat fictional "Mike" interviewing his grandfather on his death bed and scenes in the history of his grandfather's life. Sometimes it feels like Gravity's Rainbow fanfic, especially all the V-2 bits. And I'm not sure ...more
This book was such a relief to me! I just fell into it, emerging occasionally to tell my husband how much I loved it. All of the characters were interesting. I kept wanting to pick up the book and be with them again and I'm disappointed now that it's over. That feeling is exactly what I look for in a novel.
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The first few chapters of this book left me cold and I almost abandoned it. I am immensely glad that I kept going, for once it drew me in, I loved it.
This "memoir" that challenges the reliability of memory, a multivalent tale - or tales - that glorifies story for its own sake, apart from truth (how apt for today!) centers on the larger-than-life grandfather, a man of apparently indomitable energy and strength with a burning core of anger and capacity for kindness exceeded only by his disdain for ...more
This "memoir" that challenges the reliability of memory, a multivalent tale - or tales - that glorifies story for its own sake, apart from truth (how apt for today!) centers on the larger-than-life grandfather, a man of apparently indomitable energy and strength with a burning core of anger and capacity for kindness exceeded only by his disdain for ...more
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