Caroline O'Donoghue
Autor(a) de All Our Hidden Gifts
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th century
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 1,069
- Popularidade
- #24,076
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 32
- ISBNs
- 54
- Idiomas
- 5
Rachel is a middle class Irish student finishing a University degree in English in Cork. The recession is in full swing and she and her family are feeling the pinch. She lives in an unheated bohemian house with her newfound gay BFF and works in a bookstore. She wears dirty clothes, drinks too much, is somewhat irresponsible, and is struggling through serial monogamy, kinda. Maybe she is having an affair with a professor. The contextual detail is excellent, and while I could not relate to the politics of texting while dating, I could relate to the overanalyzed moves and countermoves that define the first serious love of your life. I think I might have lived in a similar house in Boston, and had a few candidate Jameses.
I think men have been writing this same book for centuries and we call it a timeless bildungsroman. Women write it and we too easily dismiss it as chick-lit. Some books of this type make me eye-roll at the self-involvement of the protagonist - O'Donoghue's Rachel is too close to the bone for it to have crossed my mind. For me, this is a better book upon reflection than I appreciated while I was reading it. I am not sure I appreciated the artistry while binging on what seemed a fun romp through some random woman's 20's. This prevents a higher rating, but I think this author is capable of greatness.… (mais)