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A review by dllh
The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart
3.0
(Beware: vague spoilers below.)
I liked it, more in the beginning than as the story moved forward. At times in the first half, it felt like the author was trying to offer subtle foreshadowing and it was anything but subtle, which to me signifies a lack of craft or perhaps merely of touch. I think it's a pretty good book, but Dorothy Allison gives the theme a much more virtuosic and harrowing treatment in Bastard Out of Carolina, so that this book seems more like a riff on something that surely does deserve further riffing on than like a really original treatment of the theme.
I liked it, more in the beginning than as the story moved forward. At times in the first half, it felt like the author was trying to offer subtle foreshadowing and it was anything but subtle, which to me signifies a lack of craft or perhaps merely of touch. I think it's a pretty good book, but Dorothy Allison gives the theme a much more virtuosic and harrowing treatment in Bastard Out of Carolina, so that this book seems more like a riff on something that surely does deserve further riffing on than like a really original treatment of the theme.