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The Forgotten Waltz (2011)

by Anne Enright(Favorite Author)

3.11 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0771030746 (ISBN13: 9780771030741)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

McClelland & Stewart

review 1: If Enright's usual prose is different to this, I suppose she did well to capture Gina's messy, convoluted, eating-its-own-tail internal monologue. If it's just her usual style, I don't think it succeeds in being as carefree and ill-measured, purposefully unpurposeful, as it wants to be. She added absolutely nothing to the old hat issue of the destructive effect of infidelity. Maybe because it's told from one point in time, we don't really see the outcome of Gina's discovery of Sean's true character. A few hokey Oirish elements too.
review 2: This slim book beautifully and painfully describes an affair and how it affects the lives of the hero and heroine, and more importantly, the hero's daughter. It is hard to be sympathetic to the heroine who seems to fall int... moreo the affair too easily, or without any guilt. But then again the author, who is writing from the viewpoint of the heroine, sees herself as somewhat unsympathetic. She knows that no one will see her favourably, let alone herself. less

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