A review by family_and_fairytales
Isabelle in the Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
I mean, if the title 'isabelle in the afternoon' doesn't stick, I could suggest 'misogyny in the afternoon.'
Containing the archaic childbirth myths, followed by the woman are crazy narrative, should they ever have any passion in them. He actually used the term 'babysit' in relation to raising his own child.
The Samuel character believes himself to be almost perfect and cerebral. I'm trying to decide if this is on purpose by Douglas Kennedy to make the character come across this way, or is it an undercurrent of his own personality threaded through the novel.
This book thinks it's a lot deeper than it actually is, which, for me, is a thinly veiled story of a man and woman who can't make up their minds and drag it about over decades, using the whole we have constructs placed on it.
It irritated me
Containing the archaic childbirth myths, followed by the woman are crazy narrative, should they ever have any passion in them. He actually used the term 'babysit' in relation to raising his own child.
The Samuel character believes himself to be almost perfect and cerebral. I'm trying to decide if this is on purpose by Douglas Kennedy to make the character come across this way, or is it an undercurrent of his own personality threaded through the novel.
This book thinks it's a lot deeper than it actually is, which, for me, is a thinly veiled story of a man and woman who can't make up their minds and drag it about over decades, using the whole we have constructs placed on it.
It irritated me