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Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand

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I haven't bothered to write an Amazon review for I don't know how many years, but this book really offended me by being so bad. Here goes. This supposed biography reads like a plodding summary of a much larger--and real--biography. Everything from Sand's life is told through prose that reminds one of the kind found in Barron's Book Notes: simplistic, shallow, monotonous, yawn-inducing, the kind that takes the "lit" out of "literature" and turns your reading into sheer torture. There's not only no in-depth analysis of either Sand the woman or the writer, there are nearly no quotes from Sand herself, and absolutely no excerpts from any of her writings. Except for the endless plot summaries of a few novels (not even the key ones) that serve absolutely no purpose, you could hardly tell that this is meant to be the biography of a WRITER. A pure abomination.

Just a rehash of old information - a bit of a disappointment, but easy to read.