lizawall 's review for:

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
4.0

this book is CRAZY. there is this really great, lurid, gossipy, sort-of-semi-gothic plot, and underneath it something incredibly bizarre going on. as usual, i like to think it is a critique of capitalism and patriarchy, but i suspect it is really about the futility of life and the terrible wrongness of all people, and all value systems.