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Title: A Bigamist's Daughter by ALICE MCDERMOTT ISBN: 0-385-33329-3 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Unsatisfying and Pointless
Comment: I received The Bigamist's Daughter as a gift as "anything written by Alice McDermott" was highly recommended by Anna Quindlen in a USA Today story. Although the writing is precise and flows, the story and the characters are not engaging. Elizabeth the main character seems to be sleep walking through her life, her affair and her job. I kept waiting for the story to click and I had to reread the final chapters to see what I was missing. It just wasn't there. No stars is a more accurate assessment of my review. Skip this book. I am going to try another of her titles since I got two as gifts. I will read another Isabel Alende and an Amy Tan and a Jane Austen in between.
Rating: 1
Summary: What Was the Point?
Comment: Elizabeth Connelly works for a Manhattan vanity press. When Tupper Daniels, a sure-to-be-published author presents her with the story of a bigamist in his southern hometown, she jokingly kids that her own father had more than one wife.
Tupper's book lacks an ending, and Elizabeth seriously considers whether her father was indeed a bigamist. Together author and editor forge a relationship to search for the end of one story and the truth of another. I reached the end of A BIGAMIST'S DAUGHTER without resolution to either quest. I'm not even sure what becomes of Tupper and Elizabeth, the couple.
As a story that describes itself as "an absolutely contemporary portrait of a new generation's search for--and avoidance of--committment in life and love," it's not a picture I would hang on a wall.
Rating: 5
Summary: it enthralled me
Comment: I liked this so well, I've bought 5 copies as gifts. Illuminating look at family relationships, memory, story, integrity. Just when you think you have these characters figured out, there's an AHA! incident which you should have anticipated, but didn't. Has one of the best last lines in fiction. Her best work!
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Title: That Night by Alice McDermott ISBN: 0385333307 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott ISBN: 0385319851 Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott ISBN: 038533334X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 12 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Child of My Heart : A Novel by Alice McDermott ISBN: 0312422911 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Seek My Face by JOHN UPDIKE ISBN: 0345460863 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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