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Krystelle
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“I am beginning to find that Joyce Carol Oates belongs to a very specific subset of novelists who write very competently when their subjects are specific people- and by specific people, I mean educated, upper class Americans. The characters in this book do not fit that bill, and therefore, they are kind of terrible.
The dialogue is stilted, the characters are woeful, and the story as a whole is implausible at best and just bizarre at best. I just don’t think that the essence of what this book wanted to do was captured, and sometimes things are better on the drawing board rather than out in the public.”
MaryScot
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SeanJElam
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“This was my first Joyce Carol Oates, and while I didn’t necessarily like it, I do look forward to reading her more famous books.
Carthage hooked me in Part I, where we follow the immediate aftermath of a family in the Adirondacks when their youngest daughter goes missing. All signs point to the elder daughter’s ex-fiance, a wounded Iraq War veteran. Good hook right? But then in Part II we fast forward about 7 years to Florida (????) and the momentum freezes. The middle section could have been its own standalone book, and it was a slog to get through. In Part III we go back to the family in Upstate New York, and while the tempo picks up again, the book never recovers from its sagging middle section.
There was a good book in here, it just needed major editing and retooling of the middle section.”
Chris O’Connor
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