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Louise Wareham

Autor(a) de Since You Ask

5 Works 51 Membros 2 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Louise Wareham Leonard

Obras de Louise Wareham

Since You Ask (2004) 33 cópias
52 Men (2015) 8 cópias
Miss Me a Lot Of (2008) 7 cópias
52 Men (2015) 2 cópias
52 Men 1 exemplar(es)

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Intermittently affecting troubled-youth tale reads like contemporary Plath / Salinger update complete with mental institution, disconnected parents, unsympathetic peers, etc. etc. The author is capable of occasional flashes of lyricism, but mostly relies on the flat, atonal register favored by young novelists who are trying to imply oceans of pain beneath the stoical surface. Should be docked an additional star for hideously amateurish, sleazy, irrelevant cover. The title is from a poem by Anne Sexton.… (mais)
 
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MikeLindgren51 | 1 outra resenha | Aug 7, 2018 |
This is a powerful novel. Wareham doesn't take the "easy" route of child sexual abuse - an evil perpetrator stalking his prey. But rather a much more complex and ambiguous route - her heroine Betsy is unsure of her own role - is she complicit ? - did she invite this and subsequent abuse? On the surface things are pretty and easy. These are wealthy, privileged young people but underneath the surface there is roiling unrest. The interaction between this surface world and reality is not perfect - I was disappointed that the scene with Betsy's parents and the perpetrator of her abuse was not explored or even described really. But this is a great first novel.… (mais)
½
 
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librarianj | 1 outra resenha | Jan 4, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
5
Membros
51
Popularidade
#311,767
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
2
ISBNs
5

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