The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti
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Author: Hannah TintiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 0385337450
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: The Dial Press
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Book Review: ... is a good read
Summary: 4 Stars
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At first it took me a while to get into this novel, but after the first twenty pages or so, I found myself reading it whenever I had some free time. My initial distraction primarily stemmed from two major issues presented in the first chapters:
- the improbable situation of the main character, and
- the absence of a time referent (I actually *still* do not know when the action of the novel is supposed to take place, but I suspect sometime in the late 19th century?)
But it all works out, I think, in a "good" way, and those bits which I had been concerned about at the beginning of the novel end up being integral to the main plot of the story, evoking surprise and, more than once, admiration for how thought-out the emplotment turns out to be.
The writing did not blow me away, but it's good. Tinti occasionally has the characters reflect on themselves and their environments in a way that seemed, to me, overly sentimental and young (not *immature*, but young) -- but again, even these things have to do with the way the plot has been structured, down to every last detail. It tends to give all the characters what I would call a sense of optimistic fatalism.
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