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The Glass Ocean (2013)

by Lori Baker(Favorite Author)

2.97 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594205361 (ISBN13: 9781594205361)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: A dysfunctional victorian family - for me to love a book I have to really connect with a character and that didn't happen for me. The narrator is an orphaned girl that tells the story of her parents' lives even before she was born. All of the characters have an emptiness about them and they all deal with their disappointments in sad destructive ways. The writing is beautifully descriptive and I guess that is what seems a bit disjointed and unsettling while reading the book. The language of the story is so beautiful but the story and characters are so full of hurt and self-destruction the language almost feels wasted on the characters.
review 2: Probably the most accomplished first novel I've read in years. The music is audacious, continuous, and mesmerizing.... more This is like a perfectly aged bottle of wine, opened on precisely the right night, accompanied by the perfect meal. Deeply absorbing, absolutely beautiful. Stunning descriptions of objects, the making of objects. Stunning descriptions of emotions, states of loneliness, obsession, desire. less

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