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Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Evening - MTI - Vintage Contemporaries
Author: Susan Minot
ISBN-13: 9780307387127
ISBN-10: 0307387127
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 71 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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cocos-mom avatar reviewed Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 67 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I found this book hard to like, even after finishing it. The main character, Ann, is a rather weak woman who spent most of her life being defined by the men in her life and just flowing along with whatever they wanted. She takes no real responsibility for anything in her life, including decisions she makes or doesn't make. In the book, she is dying, and as she does so, she looks back at her life and focuses mostly on one particular weekend spent with a man who was engaged to someone else. What a sad thing for her to focus on instead of all of the other things in her life, like her children, whom she barely thinks about as she lays dying!
Kittymama avatar reviewed Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 107 more book reviews
I loved this book! Great story :)
reviewed Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 8 more book reviews
Really a nice book.....read it in one day....Obviously the author is alive, but it was a fascinating look at what it might be like to be dying. the subplot is predictable but very nicely written.
reviewed Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 10 more book reviews
No quotation marks on the dialog, I gave up.