Kate Evans
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first heard Feb 2018
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He's worried that Daphne is going to run off with this other older man soon.
And he's sort of threatened by Eddie.
And then the novel very delicately makes it clear that Eddie is no sexual threat to the marriage or to Daphne or anything.
This is something else.
This is about this shared moment that they had in childhood, the aforementioned car accident, but not just the car accident, a conversation that took place in the moments between the accident and them being recovered from the car.
And that conversation becomes the binding moment that actually enables us to enter into a whole realm of pontification and speculation about the nature of childhood and about marriage and about achievement.
I mean, it's a very wise book, but I'm not quite sure really what it's actually in the end trying to put its thumb on.
She'd be naive not to think that this would happen.
And I actually think it's a problem with Whistler.
I found the core characters, Daphne, her sister, her husband, the aforementioned Eddie, her mother, I found them curiously uninteresting.
And I think that might be because they're a little bit too close.
Also, I should just say, even at this early stage, it's a very American book.
Its sensibility is American.
The characters are caught up almost in their American self-absorption.
It's a book about self-absorbed people.
And I found it to be claustrophobic after a while, so I can thoroughly understand, Hannah or any other reader, why you wouldn't finish a Patchett book.
Because after a while...
gee she writes well i've got to say if you're a lover of writing she writes well but what she writes well is conversation is dialogue and as someone who works in the theater i know how hard that is her dialogue is always effortless and feels like real human beings listening to each other but she almost only writes conversation and she has sort of is in search as a writer of settings for those conversations to take place
And at one point in this book, we reach the point where it's almost like post-it notes or bullet points of fragments of conversation in search of a location.
And I'm just dwelling on this for a moment because it helps us in a way.
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