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The Old Romantic (2010)

by Louise Dean(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Fig Tree

review 1: Quite funny, the characters are all, well, characters. Makes you think about perspective and the past, and how when you are ging through something your perspective is so skewed by the immediacy of the emotion and how the further past an event (or a life) you get the more you can reflect on it, probably gild it up a bit, but ultimately get something valuable from something that felt so horrible, or unbearable, in the moment.
review 2: It took me a couple of tries to get into this one. I'd start, then stop and move on to something else. I think I wasn't ready for the unconfortable and angry place this group of people was inhabiting. But the other day, I picked it up and it suddenly took off for me --- and I loved it. So much so I sat in the coffee shop for ... more2 hours today finishing it. Dean writes so well -- her characters are vivid and varied and wonderfully flawed. It's really special. less

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