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Letters From An Unknown Woman: A Novel (2011)

by Gerard Woodward(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1611453127 (ISBN13: 9781611453126)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Arcade Publishing

review 1: I enjoyed reading Nourishment, the story is a fabulous read. At its heart, it is about the effect WW2 had on the lives of families and especially on women coming to terms with having their husbands gone for a very long period of time and after the war, having changed men arriving home and the societal pressures that expected that things would return to normal.Nourishment is not as dry as this however, and Woodward has injected dark humor and rich imagination into the telling of Tory Pace's experiences of family, relationships and life. A thoroughly nourishing read.
review 2: Gerard Woodward’s “Letters from an Unknown Woman” was a quick read, but disappointing. A dust jacket blurb described it as a “black comedy.” It started that way promisingly, but... more wandered off into being neither darkly funny nor thoughtfully serious. The conclusion is unsatisfactory, as if he ran up against a deadline and simply quit the novel. He is certainly not a Barth or a Bulgakov. The best description would be to call it uneven. Another Goodreads reviewer described it as “slight in general.” I agree. I must, however, give Woodward credit for one of the best names for a literary character is quite some time – the ill-fated butcher, Icarus Dando. less

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