Pages for You: A Novel
by Sylvia Brownrigg
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Author: Sylvia BrownriggEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-06
ISBN: 0312420048
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: A testament to the beauty of nostalgia
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book I've read that truly embraces the detached intimacy that nostalgia can evoke. From the prolog you know their love will not turn out with a "happily ever after;" you can respect the journey of Flannery's love and respect the bittersweet flavor of ominous foreshadowing.
The voice that narrates this story is detached in a way that allows you to imagine an older, wiser Flannery narrating something that she remembers vividly; however, the narrator is such a vastly different person by the time she's narrating it that it feels almost foreign. I was, at first, thrown by the third-person narration of a book that I felt was narrated by one of the characters but it artfully depicts the difference in perspective between the characters and the narrator. Don't be thrown by the narration or the wistful nostalgia in Brownrigg's voice; it works.
Completely relatable and utterly believable, from the build of obsession into love to the evolution of their love and intimacy. Knowing that they won't be together in the end doesn't spoil the sweetness of their story. If you can appreciate the grandeur of the Titanic knowing that it's now lying deep in the Atlantic, then you can appreciate the beauty of this love/story knowing that it is doomed.
I only wish I could know the memory that inspired Brownrigg to write this story.
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