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Educazione Di Una Donna (2012)

by Elizabeth Percer(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8854505625 (ISBN13: 9788854505629)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Neri Pozza

review 1: Really it's between 2.5 and 3 stars.When I started this book I was really excited about it. A young boy who escaped to the US with his Jewish parents in the 40s, only to become an orphan upon arriving. A quirky yet adoring neighbor. A mom with some kind of secrets. A bright young girl with a photographic memory. The whole Kennedy clan obsession. So many intriguing threads to tie together.Aye, there's the rub. She can't. The narrative bounces from moment to moment, forgetting what has happened in the past or mixing it in awkwardly. Suddenly Naomi starts to run. To play tennis. She lives an awkward and secluded life yet eventually falls in with the artsy rebels at Wellesley, accepting homosexuality and casual sex pretty much without blinking. She is not a bad writer, she j... moreust needs to pick a story and stick with it.Another complaint is that -- references to Chris Farley notwithstanding -- there is no sense of time in this book.I am not sorry I read it, but I am not going to suggest it to others.
review 2: Lovely and challenging. This book explores themes of loss, loneliness, self-determination, and self-actualization, raising questions without easy answers. It's intelligent, painful and beautiful. If you're looking for a simplistic coming-of-age story with a straightforward protagonist then you might be disappointed, but if you're interested in a more complete portrait of a more realistic, and therefore far more complex, woman, I recommend this highly. less

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