A Good House
A Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature book. The magnificent houses, the three old-money brick houses, each with a small turret and a wraparound porch, had been built...
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersIn Canadian short-story writer Bonnie Burnard's deeply moving novel, we meet the Chambers family: Bill and Sylvia and their three children, an ordinary family from Ontario. Beginning in 1949, we follow the Chambers for the next fifty years through the many joys and disappointments of their lives: a childhood accident, a tragic illness ending in death, and a remarriage for Bill. Some of the children choose a traditional route,...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780805064957 / 805064958
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The magnificent houses, the three old-money brick houses, each with a small turret and a wraparound porch, had been built uptown near the churches when the town was younger and smaller, before the Great War. The wraparound porches were there to hold rainy-day children and morning tea carts and quiet late-evening converstion, cosy, discreet conversation which could not easily take place in front rooms or kitchens or bedrooms, certainly not on the street. Bonnie Burnard, A Good House
It's like the woman started talking and never shut up. The book was like one, long, run-on thought. She never came up for breath. Still, it was interesting enough (just) to keep me reading the book. I the end, though, I'm not sure it was really worth it. This is a book I'd recommend skipping if you're pressed for time because there's... I loved this book. It is just a plan story about an ordinary family and that is what makes it special. I see that a previous reviewer compared this to a laundry list, and I think that's very apt. To me, it felt like a series of connected vignettes, but nothing that came together for me as a novel. There is so much description in this book, that while well-written, it overshadows both plot and character development. As a result, I didn't...
