Child of My Heartのレビュー
First, please see the gist of the story.
But the fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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First, please see the reviews above for a gist of the story.
But the fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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The fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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