Sudden Rain
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565119541 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Wolff weaves the era's social upheaval into each foreboding page, but it's her devastating insight into what people say and do when they're disappointed with each other that makes this book a page-turner. Over a four-day weekend and 400-some pages, the author brings a half-dozen Southern California families to the boiling point, calling on the forces of nature (human and elemental) to portray the trouble she sees brewing in suburbia. >From the novel's first scene—a tense tour of a Los Angeles divorce court, where a stressed housewife mulls monogamy and stumbles into a mystery in the ladies' room—it's clear the reader is in the hands of a philosopher who can spin the heck out of a story, too. All rights reserved. From Publisher
Not compelling. Stilted dialogue: every female character has to say "marvelous" about once a paragraph, and "divine" on every page. The male characters occasionally "marvel", but not quite so often. Just didn't ring true, with all characters sounding alike. I was nearing 30 at the time this book was set and really, people just didn't talk this way. It becomes annoying after a while, like a sore tooth.Actually the characters fall a little flat in general.This makes the 3rd Wolff's I've read (. "Left-overs" according to D. West. This book sat in a refrigerator for Left-overs This book sat in a refrigerator for 30 years before being published. Unfortunately, I can see why. Although, some of the author's "conversations among characters" were good, a lot of it was trivial, regardless of the time period in which it was written. Although I was young in the 70s, I have a hard time remembering women's lib in quite the way it was written here.But, I guess the biggest disappointment for me was that I never felt that anything was ever brought to final clos. 0 years before being published. Unfortunately, I can see why. Although, some of the author's "conversations among characters" were good, a lot of it was trivial, regardless of the time period in which it was written. Although I was young in the 70s, I have a hard time remembering women's lib in quite the way it was written here.But, I guess the biggest disappointment for me was that I never felt that anything was ever brought to final clos. "We're all on other marriages and divorces now. Isn't it fierce?" Mary Whipple In what may be the consummate depiction of the early 1970s, Maritta Wolff recreates Los Angeles suburbia--its attitudes, values, concerns, and goals--or lack of them. Her rapier-sharp satire focuses on the shallow lifestyle, the self-indulgence, the disregard for the wider world and the environment, and the prescribed roles into which both the men and women force themselves. Following the lives of several families from three different generations--the twenty-somethings, those
Due to unrest, revelation, and disaster, all are compelled to reconsider the choices they’ve made in this riveting and resonant novel.. This long-lost novel captures the emotional rhythms of suburban Los Angeles in the early 1970s as five couples experience the throes of middle-class disaffection