Rosie
by Anne Lamott
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Author: Anne LamottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-01
ISBN: 0140264795
Number of pages: 275
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: "Disappointed" is not the word!
Summary: 1 Stars
I decided to pick up this book because I've read some of Anne Lamot's other work, namely her non-fiction, which I found to be so much better than her fiction! I was terribly disappointed and bored, I think I must have put the book down 10 times in disgust, but since the book is really not that long I kept thinking and hoping that maybe the story would turn and get better. It didn't. Granted this was Lamot's second novel and maybe I've just become accustomed to her style after she had cultivated it more in her later work, but I really feel the time I spent reading it was a complete waste, and there were so many things I could have been doing instead...like folding laundry for example. The characters are so boring and you never really get what the purpose of the book is at all. Also, she named the book after the little girl but it really is about the girl's mother, Elizabeth who sounds suspiciously autobiographical. Still I got a little tired of summoning up any type of sympathy for a woman who is ALWAYS drunk, paranoid, angry and perpetually unemployed with absolutely no direction in life at all. My suggestion is to skip this book entirely if you are trying to get to know Lamot and read some of her later books. She is after all a very realistic, witty and heart wrenching author - just not with this book!
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