Amy Foster [Paperback]

Joseph Conrad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004

I had the time to see her dull face, red, not with a mantling blush, but as if her flat cheeks had been vigorously slapped, and to take in the squat figure, the scanty, dusty brown hair drawn into a tight knot at the back of the head. She looked quite young. With a distinct catch in her breath, her voice sounded low and timid.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419106023
• ISBN-13: 978-1419106026
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,181,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 25, 2011

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momanem35 "Adriana" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amy Foster (Kindle Edition)

For a while now, Amazon had been recommending for me a DVD entitled Swept from the Sea, which never having heard of it, I ignored. My curiosity finally got the best of me, and I clicked on it to see what it was about. The premise sounded promising. It also happened to mention that it was based on a story entitled Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad. Since books (or stories, as is case here) are almost always better than movie adaptations, I decided to read the story instead. I had high hopes. Unfortunately, this story did not work for me. It felt more like an outline of a story that was never fully fleshed out. I think that this was mostly the result of the way the story was told - from the first person by someone who heard it told to them from someone else. Anyone who has every played telephone knows that the further removed you are from the actual events, the more diluted and distorted the story gets. Rather than getting into the main characters' heads to find out what their motivations are, we have a second hand account of what someone thought they might have been thinking.

Since I never really connected with the characters, I did not find the story to be particularly engaging or memorable. In the years to come, this review will probably be the only evidence I'll have to remind myself that I did, indeed, read this story.