As for Me and My House
A Literature, Classics, Canadian Literature book. This novel takes the form of a diary by the unnamed wife of Philip...
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- Pages: 165 pages
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What can I say, Ross's writing is absolutely amazing. The character of Mrs.Bentley is one of the most complex, layered and interesting I've seen in a long while. Oh Mrs.Bentley, I still don't know what to make of you after having finished this book.The novel is set in the prairies during the depression and written in diary entries from... This novel takes the form of a diary by the unnamed wife of Philip Bentley, a frustrated painter who has been a small town church minister for a number of years in spite of his apparent lack of faith. His hypocrisy and its effect on his art, as well as the couples childlessness, torment him and strain the marriage. The setting is the... This is a sad, barren, and bleak story with just enough moments of movement and hope to make it worthwhile. But the writing is beautiful--like reading a painting.Mr. Bentley is a failed artist making his living as a pastor moving from one small Canadian farming town to another. Narrated by his wife, it details the course of a year in...
