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Double Happiness (2010)

by Mary-Beth Hughes(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0802170749 (ISBN13: 9780802170743)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Grove Press, Black Cat

review 1: Loved the first couple of stories, then the rest were hard to read, meaning I found her prose difficult to follow. The use of no quotation marks is something I've employed as well, but you have to be very careful with this device. Hughes uses it throughout, and it can get very confusing as to who is saying what. There were flashes of wonderful passages, but as a whole, I found myself skimming to the end. I would check out her novel, however.
review 2: These are short stories but each packed a punch. Most are about the dynamics between people - lovers, siblings, parents/kids - but they're very intricately plotted, going forward and backward in time, and sometimes hard to follow but most were really interesting. They're the kind of stories where once you finish o... morene - or even midway through - you feel the need to flip back to the beginning and revisit what transpired before you got from there to here. less

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