Books by Valerie Martin
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review 1: This novel was beautifully written, in exquisite prose---the level of historically accurate detail about every gesture and scene was astounding. Also, the novel had a wonderful sense of construction. We are constantly moving from the consciousness and concerns of one to charact...
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review 1: Probably closer to 3.5 but I'll round up given that I found it engrossing, well-written, and stayed up far too late on a weeknight to finish it. Martin says something I liked about complicated love. Despite individuals' efforts to make it less complicated, their narratives straig...
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review 1: Another well-told tale from one of my favorite authors. It's a fictional memoir of an actor. Most of it takes place in the 1970s in New York City. I didn't find the depiction of the setting to be extremely well done; maybe this is intentional - the result of the level of self-abs...
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review 1: I have no interest in the lives or thoughts of actors, but this book is about a love triangle amongst actors--which is all the more intense because when they are manipulating each other they are so much more persuasive and therefore perhaps more effective. They also live more i...