Posted by susan C on June 15, 2002, at 19:06:11
Ok, I got the book and I am holding it, well, not really, but it is on the kitchen table. I checked it out again, cause I couldn't remember enough of the story, what happened where and when, to carry on a conversation. As I was coming home, I was thinking about several things: One, that I do have cognative problems, my memory is really shot, and it takes a lot of work to articulate what I want to say. Two, I realized I read this book as if what happened were true. There was such a blending of time frame, the fifties, the sixties, the seventies....decades I have lived through, and history I vaguely remember, blended with fictional characters, but in such a realistic setting, I felt I was there...I had to stop and say THIS IS FICTION! So my question to all of you is: can literature (fiction) be so accurate it portrays REAL LIFE? Does this story qualify? And if not, at what points or point, did it break down. Or at what point was particularly tangible?
a mouse scratching her head and re reading
poster:susan C
thread:495
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