My Old Sweetheart
A Literary Fiction, Fiction book. Although I read this many years ago, it's evocative descriptions of Hawaii and growing up...
In this mesmerizing novel, Susanna Moore displays a naturalist's eye for the landscape of her native Hawaii and an uncanny sensitivity to the despairing love between mothers and daughters. Lily Shields grows up amid the fragrance of night-jasmine and burning sugar cane, and the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness. For if Anna Shields is an island unto herself--fragile, glamorous, and fearfully needy--Lily is the bridge that connects her to reality....
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 228 pages
- ISBN: 9780679776413 / 679776419
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Some stop you dead in your tracks writing... Unbelievable My Old Sweetheart was written in 1982, it feels so fresh with a contemporary sensibility. But having said that, it does remind me in tone of another book I recently written about that time Margaret Atwoods marvellous Surfacing. Moores novel is set in lush, tropical Hawaii and is centred on a young, uncertain teenage girl,... Although I read this many years ago, it's evocative descriptions of Hawaii and growing up there stay with me and it remains one of my all-time favorites. As www.dovegreyreader.com so perfectly described it in her 1/27/2011 review:I always think as I read a book like My Old Sweetheart that I want to read many more books like this. Spell-binding...
