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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
I'm slowly making my way through Didion's novels, and this one was a surprise. In her non-fiction, she has a way of writing about things and inserting herself into subjects like "Hawaii" and "water sources in southern California" - always interesting; however, I've never seen her do it in her fiction until this novel.
She acts as another character nearly, at first just as the writer and divulges in how she means to introduce these characters and their tragedy. In this way, it almost reads like a true first-person account. Once again, many great sentences I relished in, as I usually do with Didion.
She acts as another character nearly, at first just as the writer and divulges in how she means to introduce these characters and their tragedy. In this way, it almost reads like a true first-person account. Once again, many great sentences I relished in, as I usually do with Didion.
forgoes any sense of narrative structure to be "meta" / self aware, but only fictionally. I liked the style, but I could definitely understand not liking it--it gets confusing and muddle-ly in its way.
I found this book incredibly similar to Freedom in that politics operate as the driving force of the narration and though the political contrivances are delivered straight they come off as almost entirely absurd -like some sort of understated "Catch 22".
Having read Joan Didions autobiographical "Blue Nights" just before this fiction novel what struck me dumb was realizing Joan Didion had surgically dissected from her own life and bodily transplanted events into this narration. -Which I guess there is every indication and report that artists do but these examples were so painful and poignant -this book blew me away.
Having read Joan Didions autobiographical "Blue Nights" just before this fiction novel what struck me dumb was realizing Joan Didion had surgically dissected from her own life and bodily transplanted events into this narration. -Which I guess there is every indication and report that artists do but these examples were so painful and poignant -this book blew me away.