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Liana
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If you've read Madame Bovary you'll get the general gist of Liana. Just move the setting from semi-rural France to a small Caribbean island, and you're all set.
I read (most of) this because I was interested in Martha Gellhorn, someone I had not heard of until the recent HBO movie 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'. The writing is straight-forward, journalistic I suppose, in the way that Hemingway's was. I think I would be more interested in her journalism than this novel.
I read (most of) this because I was interested in Martha Gellhorn, someone I had not heard of until the recent HBO movie 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'. The writing is straight-forward, journalistic I suppose, in the way that Hemingway's was. I think I would be more interested in her journalism than this novel.
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June 20, 2012
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June 20, 2012
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June 23, 2012
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Dec 16, 2012 02:12PM
Have you read her biography? It explains her interest in using her journalism to explore fiction.
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I haven't read her biography, and in re-reading my review of Liana, I apparently didn't read Liana very carefully - it isn't really anything like Madame Bovary. I must have been just dashing out a review with no actual thought behind it.I'm still interested in reading her non-fiction. But I just didn't enjoy this novel.
