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Loading... The Odd Woman: A Novelby Gail Godwin
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. As you can tell, not much happens. Not, I don’t think, quite my kind of book. There were moments when I really connected with it—for instance, when Jane is musing about the surfeit of academics who mock their own subjects. Otherwise, it just didn’t do much for me. It’s one of those books where people never really connect with each other; in fact, Jane never really connects with herself. The way it ends should be satisfying, but her doubts and half-heartedness about it make it not terribly. Jane is thoroughly uncomfortable with herself and with all her relatives. There is no joy in the book. There’s a connection here with George Gissing’s The Odd Women, which Jane is reading during the book, and I guess there’s not really any joy in that, either—but people are more themselves, more comfortable in their own skin or at least more familiar with themselves. The problems that afflict Gissing’s characters are not of their own making. They are trapped by their position in society. Jane just can’t get her act together. (  ) jholcomb | Jan 25, 2008 |   no reviews | add a review
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