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The Confessions Of Edward Day (2009)

by Valerie Martin(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385525842 (ISBN13: 9780385525848)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Nan A. Talese

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 straightforward, easier on the psyche, sometimes love (and other emotions) are tangled up in such a way that it is impossible to unravel without cutting it into countless pieces. And that is the decision that some are faced with: to understand that love fully is at the risk of damaging it irrevocably, but to accept it means to do so in a messed and tangled state that will never be straightened. Of course, this isn't the whole of the novel, just something that struck me about it.
review 2: Thi... mores was an enjoyable read, a "memoir" of a fictitious actor, Edward Day, who is totally self preoccupied. While the narrator is not a very nice guy, he is an actor and one develops a whole lot of sympathy for the struggles anyone choosing this life path has to confront - finances, ego issues, (un)employment. The story deals with a love triangle and one corner of it is another actor who saved Edward from drowning. The writing is excellent. less

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