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A review by manwithanagenda
From Rockaway by Jill Eisenstadt
2.0
I purchased this book mostly because I've come to trust Vintage Contemporaries, which had a great deal of great new fiction - I only learned later of Eisenstadt's connection to authors Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt through the fictional (H/C)amden College.
When I got around to reading it, I looked it up here and saw how unknown it was and hoped that I might be reading some wrongfully neglected author.
That's not quite the case, Eisenstadt is pretty good and can turn a good phrase, but the novel, as brief and quick to read as it is, was dull sometimes. I neither liked nor hated the characters, they were never more then words on a page.
From Rockaway fits into it's time-frame of the late 1980s, but unlike some of her contemporaries she's compared to, Eisenstadt does not make the grade to continue as a "must-read."
When I got around to reading it, I looked it up here and saw how unknown it was and hoped that I might be reading some wrongfully neglected author.
That's not quite the case, Eisenstadt is pretty good and can turn a good phrase, but the novel, as brief and quick to read as it is, was dull sometimes. I neither liked nor hated the characters, they were never more then words on a page.
From Rockaway fits into it's time-frame of the late 1980s, but unlike some of her contemporaries she's compared to, Eisenstadt does not make the grade to continue as a "must-read."