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Beautiful Miscellaneous
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Dominic Smith
Jane Hyde
, January 31, 2008
As a school librarian I read a fair number of young adult novels, but not every novel about an adolescent falls into that genre. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference, but one distinction is whether the voice is that of an adult looking back or of a real adolescent living that time. This brilliant novel is in the former group. Nathan, an ordinary and perceptive teenager with a father who expects him to be a genius and distinguish himself in some huge way endures an auto accident which sends him into temporary brain death and changes his life forever. After the accident he has an extraordinary memory and is sent to an institude for teens with various brain conditions. His father's expectations change but do not diminish. Over the course of the novel he is introduced to teenage romance and what it's like to be blind as he tries to figure out what to make of his life and how to deal with his father. A literary novel that's also an engrossing page-turner with a surprising ending, as we see Nathan in his thirties and what he has become.
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Friends & Relations
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Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Hyde
, January 09, 2008
I've written a bit about Bowen's Friends and Relations on my reading blog at latewhenthecat.blogspot.com but will share a few thoughts here. This less well known novel of Bowen, from 1931, is a very subtle story of two sisters, the men they marry, and their upper middle class lives in Englsnd between the wars. it's a book that grows on the reader with repeated readings. One man marries the wrong sister, in a sense, and much of the novel shows how the two families' lives turn out and what becomes of the unacknowledged passion. Boiwen's treatment of her characters has been called cold by some reviewers, but rereading reveals her sympathy for them and the subtlety of her portrayal of the nuances of human emotion and behavior.
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