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My Emotions (2000)

by Valerie Martin(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0297844997 (ISBN13: 9780297844990)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

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-absorption of the main character who's so wrapped up in his own head he isn't paying attention to the politics or culture around him, other than theater. For this reason and because of his seeming inability to love Madeleine, rather than just desire her, I found Edward only somewhat interesting and ultimately unlikable. I found the tragic Madeleine - whose first husband is unable to consummate their love (we think) - more compelling than Edward, although we don't get to know her as ... morewell.
review 2: I don't know why I read this book all the way through, except the writer's engaging style and curiosity about the big reveal. The message is that actors have no souls or morals beyond the parts they play. Lead character is an actor is saved from drowning by another actor who is his shadow personality. The main character shows no growth or change and the big reveal is anticlimactic at best. Prominent author, who's won the Booker Prize, which made it eminently readable and the nuances of character were all there, plus the shadow character was unpredictable and enigmatic, so I was eager to find out where/how he'd next appear. less

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