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jbarr5's review
3.0
Preston Falls by David Gates
This story is about a family, man wife and 2 kids. They travel to VT for their weekends to get away from the city.
Jean the wife is tired after working every day to drive 4 hours to get to the weekend house.
Willis the husband is on a leave, unpaid and is at odds with himself. After relatives leave early things fall apart for them.
She leaves with the kids to camp out one night before heading home because school starts. Willis ends up coming after them, gun in the truck along with the dog and gets into trouble and ends up in jail.
Story continues and we learn about the past as the kids grow older year after year. Roger is the oldest and has a mind of his own. Mel is a teen also and has her way of getting things done.
Interesting to learn about the northern town but I found a lot of abusive vulgar swearing-so unnecessary to get the point across.
He goes through his mid life crisis and she goes to find him, having no idea where he'd be...
Liked walks through the woods and other places described.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
This story is about a family, man wife and 2 kids. They travel to VT for their weekends to get away from the city.
Jean the wife is tired after working every day to drive 4 hours to get to the weekend house.
Willis the husband is on a leave, unpaid and is at odds with himself. After relatives leave early things fall apart for them.
She leaves with the kids to camp out one night before heading home because school starts. Willis ends up coming after them, gun in the truck along with the dog and gets into trouble and ends up in jail.
Story continues and we learn about the past as the kids grow older year after year. Roger is the oldest and has a mind of his own. Mel is a teen also and has her way of getting things done.
Interesting to learn about the northern town but I found a lot of abusive vulgar swearing-so unnecessary to get the point across.
He goes through his mid life crisis and she goes to find him, having no idea where he'd be...
Liked walks through the woods and other places described.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
borborygmus's review against another edition
4.0
It was OK. Picked it up after an endorsement by Nick Hornby. I should have been able to identify more with Doug Willis, but ended up not liking him - which is possibly intentional. Certainly a book of two halves. Would have liked to give it 3 1/2.
thebobsphere's review against another edition
4.0
Kind of similar to American beauty. A guy is fed up of his life and then rebels against American society. Funny and fast paced but not too memorable.
greenblack's review against another edition
3.0
Better than Jernigan, in my opinion, and I will
get to other books by this author..... but not
this year.....
To those who compare the author to Russell Banks,
I say, “don’t even...”
get to other books by this author..... but not
this year.....
To those who compare the author to Russell Banks,
I say, “don’t even...”
alice_alexandra's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
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