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Dance Lessons: A Novel (2011)

by Áine Greaney(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0815609841 (ISBN13: 9780815609841)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Syracuse University Press

review 1: The development of the character Jo (a person it would be easy to hate & dismiss) was amazing; Greaney lets you get to know Jo through the events that shaped her so I didn't like her but could understand her. It's not an easy story as you experience the characters' restricted lives and hurtful actions but worth getting to the ending when Ellen is able to bravely change the legacy of bitterness. Vivid setting & characters.
review 2: Two and a half stars. This book was fair. I would like to have seen more development in the plot. The story was everywhere. In a nutshell, the main character, Ellen, marries an Irish immagrant who she does not love. He is rather cruel, which stems back to his childhood as his mother was cruel to him. Her meaness stems back to he... morer parents feeling the need to give away the family farm in order to get her married to a man twice her age. This is a story of sadness and regrets and does not always make sense. It was a rather short book and too many stories were left undeveloped for me. less

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