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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
boxerrebellion1's review against another edition
3.0
The Jalna books were some of my Mom's favorites when she was a teen (back in the day). I remember reading some when I was in high school. Decades later, I found she still has them, so when visiting in the last several years I've been rereading them, plus some others she found in used bookstores. I've enjoyed the earlier ones that tell the story of three generations building and living at Jalna, a farm in the wilds of Canada.
This one I found disconcerting, although the title would suggest the story is about one brother (Wakefield), much of the story revolves around Rennie or Piers. It is disjointed, moving between the story of one brother's acquisition and training of a racehorse; another about another brother's unfortunate fascination with his narcissistic wife; and then the titular character meeting, falling in love with a woman who he later is separated from ....
The story ends after most of the men have left Canada for Europe and World War 2, and maybe the disjointedness of the story telling was supposed to represent the build up to and experience of war... but it took away from the charm of the earlier books.
This one I found disconcerting, although the title would suggest the story is about one brother (Wakefield), much of the story revolves around Rennie or Piers. It is disjointed, moving between the story of one brother's acquisition and training of a racehorse; another about another brother's unfortunate fascination with his narcissistic wife; and then the titular character meeting, falling in love with a woman who he later is separated from ....
The story ends after most of the men have left Canada for Europe and World War 2, and maybe the disjointedness of the story telling was supposed to represent the build up to and experience of war... but it took away from the charm of the earlier books.