neiljung78's review against another edition
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book felt long and sad - sometimes miserable - and full of winter. Some really magnificent passages.
jamiereadthis's review against another edition
3.0
Malamud uses up time in a way I’ve rarely seen. For one, it’s fascinating to have the biographer under glass; reading Lawrence by having Dubin wrestle with Lawrence. But the reason I had to keep reading pages twice was the way Malamud uses up time; he gets from one thing to another in the middle of a sentence, and I want to pin this one up like a moth under glass just to figure out how.
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