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Title: The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin ISBN: 0-345-38991-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Godwin's best, but...
Comment: Father Melancholy's Daughter, its sequel, Evensong, and A Mother and Two Daughters are, for me, vintage Godwin. They set the standard for penetrating characterization and unsettling glimpses into how people really work. I picked up The Odd Woman with high hopes and was not utterly disappointed. Flickers of the good things Godwin will accomplish in later novels are abundant in this rather dense exploration of a "spinster professor's" running inner dialogue. If this is your first go-around with Godwin, however, skip this for the infinitely richer Father Melancholy's Daughter or A Mother and Daughters.
Rating: 1
Summary: A disappointment!
Comment: I first read this book when I too was a 30ish, unmarried college professor, like its heroine. Fiction which tackles the concerns of professional women was then, as now, rare. I eagerly sought out this book, and what a disappointment it was! The professional concerns received almost no attention, while the heroine's energies were consumed by ill advised romantic and erotic relationships. So what's new? Poorly conceived and not very well written!
Rating: 2
Summary: An interesting character study;not so interesting character.
Comment: Gail Godwin has written some wonderful books; it was the experiences I've had with Ms. Godwin's books that kept me reading this one. I cared very little for the characters or for the story, but kept reading, looking for one of those gems of revalation that sometimes strike when reading Gail Godwin - even those were lacking. Books must be so well written that the words and sentences themselves keep you turning the page; if the words fail the characters and plot must take over. I could not make myself care what happened to Jane Clifford; a professor of literature who refers to George Eliot by the infrequently used Marian Evens (Mary Anne the name used in standard references and biographical notes). At first, I didn't even know who she was referring to, and in the end I found it to be an annoyance. Jane reminded me of one of those people who feel burdened by their intelligence and remove themselves from the world as we know and enjoy it because they are "just a cut above", yet she mourns her lack of close relationships and sticks, from pride rather than love, to a married man who treats her like the sometime mistress of a married man, and a friend who annoys her by looking for friendship.
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Title: Glass People by Gail Godwin ISBN: 0345389905 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Finishing School by GAIL GODWIN ISBN: 0345431901 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Perfectionists by Gail Godwin ISBN: 0345392698 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin ISBN: 0345389239 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life by Gail Godwin ISBN: 0380808412 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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