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A review by lurdes_oliveira
O Domingo das Mães by Graham Swift
2.0
For a short book, this felt very long…
Jane Fairchild is looking back at her life told in jagged flashbacks from her current age of 90, in particularly the 30 of March 1924, this would be a fine way to tell a story, if this was a full length novel, but due to the short-story format it became very confusing, I don't know if something was lost in translation (I read de Portuguese version), but I didn't like the way the story was told, at all.
This very repetitive. Too much about one day and not enough about any other moments of her life; too much discussion of bodily fluids and how they got there; too much confusing backwards and forwards in time, and a very pretentious writing style.
Jane Fairchild is looking back at her life told in jagged flashbacks from her current age of 90, in particularly the 30 of March 1924, this would be a fine way to tell a story, if this was a full length novel, but due to the short-story format it became very confusing, I don't know if something was lost in translation (I read de Portuguese version), but I didn't like the way the story was told, at all.
This very repetitive. Too much about one day and not enough about any other moments of her life; too much discussion of bodily fluids and how they got there; too much confusing backwards and forwards in time, and a very pretentious writing style.