was it indeed Michela at the hospital? Does Alice survive her anorexia? What happens when Viola realizes her film is ruined? Without these answers, even in the most obscured revelations, we miss not only the emotional payoff, but the lesson/movement/character growth, IMO. He's able to occupy a girl/woman's psyche as seamlessly as a man's and he shines when he's occupying interior spaces: "she had grown attached to it with the obstinacy with which people become attached only to things that hurt them." The lead characters battle with anorexia and cutting-very current, almost hip post-modern symptoms.īut where was the denouement, or the arc? The lack of completion of myriad thoughts and plot devices (SPOILER ALERT), i.e.
#THE JOURNEY BACK FROM HELL EBOOKBIKE SERIES#
Each painstakingly set-up scenario of adolescent and adult angst/trauma is left dangling like a series of complicated esher drawings that lead nowhere and are partially erased. I want to love this novel, it's unusual, bleak, as real and demanding as gum stuck to your shoe, but there is no payoff for my time spent with it. He's able to occupy a girl/woman's psyche as seamlessly I finished this book moments ago and find myself irritated instead of thoughtful. I finished this book moments ago and find myself irritated instead of thoughtful. Like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and the weight of childhood experience that is set to become a universal classic.more Then a chance occurrence reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit.īut the mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles away, and the two are forced to separate. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. Alice and Mattia, both "primes," are misfits who seem destined to be alone. A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.Ī prime number can only be divided by itself or by one-it never truly fits with another. A prime number can only be divided by itself or by one-it never truly fits with another.
A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
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