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The Last Life Author: Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world s... more »
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
***The book I have for swap has some worn pages and a worn cover from beach reading. Please let me know If this will be a problem - it it still in good condition***
But this book was average, it meandered quite a bit and I never could grasp the true story. For this reason, it was slow reading and I was finding myself reading the same page over and over to understand some things.
But this book was average, it meandered quite a bit and I never could grasp the true story. For this reason, it was slow reading and I was finding myself reading the same page over and over to understand some things.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I was not captivated, but I enjoyed reading about a time and a place that I had not encountered before. France, after the fall of Algeria is not a setting I expected to feel at home in, but Claire Messud does a fine job.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Gorgeous writing, and I enjoyed all but the last 1/8th of the book or so. I'm honestly not sure whether the story lost steam, or whether I did. Worth reading for the lovely prose alone.
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