Evening (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Susan Minot
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Author: Susan MinotEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0307387127
Number of pages: 264
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: A Different Writing Style
Summary: 5 Stars
Be warned before you read this book that the style of writing is very stream-of-consciousness. If you can't handle run on sentences and lack of punctuation, this book isn't for you. If you can get past that, which I admit took me a couple of chapters, you'll enjoy this book. Evening is the story of a woman on her deathbed recollecting a weekend 40 years ago and how she fell in love. Interpersed between this main story are ramblings about the other events in her life--her marriages, her childhood and her children. The story is told through her hazy consciousness as she is under heavy sedation during her illness. However, I felt that the way the story was told was very poignant and very much as people actually think and remember events. It may seem hazy to some, but it lends a dreamlike quality to the book and I found myself seeing the things she saw and the excitement/joy/sadness/confusion she must have felt. I liked that the author doesn't have to spell everything out for the reader, but takes the reader on the emotional journey of the character. This is very unlike any other book I have read, but I did enjoy it and found that the punctuation (or lack of) didn't get in the way after I got used to it.
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