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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting, but very draggy,
This review is from: Cast Iron Shore (Paperback)
Linda Grant is a writer that draws you right into a particular family and historical time. There was great potential for this book, but it got off track as the protagonist went to NY from Liverpool and had two very lengthy relationships where nothing much happened. In the second, she gets absorbed into the world of Communism, but on a pretty superficial level, and the meetings/activities/related to that seem to carry the entire second half of the book and go on for way too long. By book's end, we're not sure there's a fully-developed person there, though she's in her 60s. Can't say I liked Sybille Ross (the protagonist) or even felt much for her given her decisions, values (or lack thereof) and life trajectory. Her identifications with a Jewish father and a German mother during and after WWII would have been much richer territory and given Sybille more depth and interest.
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THE CAST IRON SHORE. by Linda Grant (Hardcover - 1996)
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