Start in Life
A European Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction book. We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had...
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- Pages: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9780224018999 / 0
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Anita Brookner, A Start in Life // We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea would still be there at the end. She was nearly ready. Anita Brookner, The Debut //
With an opening sentence of, "Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature." any serious reader would suspect that what follows will be good. And this was. Ruth, as Dr. Weiss is know for most of the novel, is brought up in an unusual household with her actress mother, Helen, and her antiquarian bookseller father,... Brookner is clearly a very talented writer; the blurb from The New York Times describes the writing as "precise," which is apt. But this doesn't mean that her novels are enjoyable. I have no idea what Fay Weldon was smoking when she called this novel "very, very funny." It's not funny at all. Ruth Weiss, our redheaded heroine, is vaguely... This is a very odd little novel. After finishing it I went online toread what other people have thought about it in an effort to clarify my own thoughts. It is generally considered to be loosely autobiographical in its depiction of Ruth's parents and her childhood in general. In fact, the author described her own parents as "just as...
