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Loading... All This Could Be Yours (edition 2019)by Jami Attenberg (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Meh. Trying to think what the point of this novel is, between the unpleasant main characters and the pages spent on the points of view of some really extremely tangential characters, and what I got is that it’s better to be alone and free than in a relationship. It’s a bit misanthropic, but not nearly so interesting or committed as the work of that queen of misanthropic fiction, Ottessa Moshfegh. ( ) I loved Jami Attenberg’s All This Could Be Yours. A stunning and refreshing writing style that can take the most mundane situation and make it pop. The story about the criminal Victor and how he impacts his family is a thrilling read. Cleverly Attenberg never reveals any detail about his underworld life, leaving the imagination to do its work on the reader. Makes me want to dip into the catalog of the author’s other novels. A novel about a deeply dysfunctional family, centering on various family members' relationships with Victor, who was a criminal, philanderer, abuser, and all-around terrible person, and who currently lies unconscious, waiting to die. I think my experience of this one was marred by too-high expectations, something that, ironically, was the product of going into the previous Jami Attenberg novel I read with too-low expectations. That one was All Grown Up, and it looked like a very chicklitty sort of novel (which is very much not my thing) about the sort of person I'd likely have no interest in or connection with, but to my great surprise, I loved it. The writing was excellent, the characters felt very real, and it ended up being quite emotionally affecting. So, naturally, I was expecting a similar experience from this one, which instead was just sort of... not bad? I do like the way Attenberg can casually and chaotically jump around from POV to POV, a practice that normally irritates me, and make it actually work for the story in a way that, for the most part, feels meaningful and right. But while the characters were at least somewhat interesting, they lacked that feeling of realness, and in return I lacked a strong feeling of investment in any of them. So, it was all just a little bit disappointing, even if I do still think Attenberg is a good writer and am still interested in reading more of her stuff. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. No library descriptions found. |
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