The almost moon

a novel

291 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2007 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-67746-2
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OCLC Number:
85830839

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation.

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3 stars

There was some very well-written prose, and some great emotionally charged passages in this book. As a whole, the journey of Helen is an interesting, hopeful one, and there's a lot to consider and discuss. But, you got to get past the first 93 pages or so. These pages, the first third of the book, contain some of the most atrocious prose that I have read in a while. It's almost like Ms. Sebold took some unfinished project from her high school years and finished it without editing/changing/rewriting what she had all ready done. It seems like two different books.

Unfortunately, these pages are also the first the reader is going to encounter. Who's going to want to get paste this chore of prose to get to the good parts?

As a result, I can only say the novel was ok. The overall concept works, the conflict works, the resolution …

Subjects

  • Divorced women
  • Death
  • Mothers
  • Middle-aged women
  • Senior women
  • Fiction
  • Detachment (Psychology)
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Mentally ill women
  • Mothers and daughters