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The Very Rich Hours
Anne Kane, begins Harvard as an innocent student from Providence, Rhode Island, and must overcome social, as well as academic, hurdels before she is through
160 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1987
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Jean McGarry
20 books3 followersAmerican novelist and short story writer, a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
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May 1, 2015
This almost certainly is a rating in which I've been fooled by the author and my ineptitude shines in the stellar omission. There so much complexity in this idiosyncratic book that I am reminded of Cixous's concept of the non-linearity of feminine writing.
That isn't to say there aren't interesting postmodern aspects of the text: the varying use of the protagonist's name, an oscillation between left and full justifications, stream of consciousness prose poems, etc.; and certainly, I was able to follow the loose narrative about a young girl's maturation through education and its ultimate result (sadly, predictably) in marriage. The tone, in conjunction with this trope, is melancholy, often musing on existence and writing.
I just found it hard to read. Really really hard to read. Not like Ulysses hard to read, just taxing. Like all McGarry did was to just tire me out.
Not cool, McGarry. Not cool.
Sleep.
That isn't to say there aren't interesting postmodern aspects of the text: the varying use of the protagonist's name, an oscillation between left and full justifications, stream of consciousness prose poems, etc.; and certainly, I was able to follow the loose narrative about a young girl's maturation through education and its ultimate result (sadly, predictably) in marriage. The tone, in conjunction with this trope, is melancholy, often musing on existence and writing.
I just found it hard to read. Really really hard to read. Not like Ulysses hard to read, just taxing. Like all McGarry did was to just tire me out.
Not cool, McGarry. Not cool.
Sleep.
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