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A review by brittanieshey
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
1.0
What a hate read. My friend recommended I read some John Irving, so I chose this book because I lived in Amsterdam, and part of the book takes place there. I wanted to rage-quit this book SO MANY TIMES but for some fucking reason I held out until the very end. John Irving does not know how to write women characters. He barely knows how to write period. Every other word is fucking italics which gives the impression that he has VOICE IMMODULATION DISORDER like that Will Ferrell character.
Anyway, the scenes involving Amsterdam's Red Light District are extremely regressive in the way they portray sex workers, his main character does shit a normal woman would NEVER do, and even when writing from the perspective of a woman (poorly) he can barely hide his obvious misogyny.
What a terrible fucking book.
Anyway, the scenes involving Amsterdam's Red Light District are extremely regressive in the way they portray sex workers, his main character does shit a normal woman would NEVER do, and even when writing from the perspective of a woman (poorly) he can barely hide his obvious misogyny.
What a terrible fucking book.