Sylvia Brownrigg
Auteur van Pages for You: A Novel
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Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of the novel "The Metaphysical Touch" (FSG, 1999) & a collection of short stories, "Ten Women Who Shook the World" (FSG, 2000). She lives in San Francisco. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Gangbare naam
- Brownrigg, Sylvia
- Officiële naam
- Brownrigg, Sylvia Alderyn
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-12-16
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Mountain View, California, USA
Los Altos, California, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Berkeley, California, USA - Opleiding
- Yale University
Johns Hopkins University - Beroepen
- novelist
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- 14
- Ook door
- 1
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- 846
- Populariteit
- #30,227
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 31
- ISBNs
- 59
- Talen
- 4
- Favoriet
- 2
This novel caught my attention at first, and the first half of it was spectacular. Flannery is a writer who became famous with her debut novel, but her second novel unfortunately tanked. She’s a mother to a very sweet little girl and married to a bombastic, larger-than-life artist who is a bit too egotistical for my liking. She’s experiencing writer’s block, and has been for a while, and is pleasantly surprised when she’s invited to a seminar as a guest speaker at her alma mater. And then she’s even more pleasantly surprised when she realizes that the keynote speaker is her old flame, Anne.
The novel is split into three parts, the first and third part being told by Flannery and the middle part being told by Anne. They met when Flannery was a student and Anne was a post-graduate in the same department, and they very quickly fell in messy, heated love. Unfortunately, it only lasts a few months, and soon they part ways. And years later, this seminar is them meeting again.
You would expect that their reunion would be wonderful, full of amazing scenes and would make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Instead, it’s just so…anticlimactic.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the trope – lovers meet after years apart and reconcile. But it’s just so boring. There could have been so much to this story beyond what it gave me and I was expecting so much more. Maybe it’s just being realistic in the way it shows how sometimes you just want one night with the person who you used to love to get closure and that’s it. But the way that the story builds up to that moment and the way that Anne and Flannery talk to each other just makes you believe that their love was a timeless affair that crosses boundaries. When all it was, in the end, was a fling.
So yeah. This could have been better.
I give it a 3/5. But, you should still read it, because we all need more queer stories in our lives.… (meer)