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afk2022 's review for:
Sons and Lovers
by Geoff Dyer, D. H. Lawrence
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A classic! I found this book very intense. The subject matter demands a lot of engagement, and the main cast of characters are very gripping but also fustrating in their chaos and restlessness. A very good read on the impact of generational trauma, death, relationships and realist existentialism. DH Lawrence paints a very vivid internal world in which the fraught psychologies of these people interact but do not reconcile. There is not happy ending - he curated a cyclical world in which disaster falls into disaster and is briefly caught by other things.