Rate this book

Beside The Sea (2010)

by Véronique Olmi(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0956284027 (ISBN13: 9780956284020)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Peirene Press Ltd

review 1: A schizophrenic woman takes her two boys to the sea for one last time. Even knowing from the back cover that this book would have a devastating end, it is the journey that intrigued me. To see her crumbling thoughts and emotions that got her there. It is a very sad and tragic book, but a powerfully engaging journey. In the beginning the punctuation was driving me to distraction - but once I got past that, it was sad and powerful.
review 2: Well, that was brutal. Like the better Lynch movies, the wonder of this book was that it looked at the aspects of humanity that we try and ignore and pretend we are not a part of. You infer what's coming as the book goes on, but that doesn't make anything about it any easier when it happens. It also stands with DFW's "The... more Depressed Person" as one of the most honest examinations of depression I've read. less

Download links for: Beside the Sea

Advertising