I was an English major during the 1960's and strongly disagree with your take on what we read in college. Perhaps my age, at the time, 22-25 help me to be more mature or interested in my reading assignments. I am now 82. I also have find memories of the many novels and essays I read.
I remember liking this book, but Flynn tries so hard to build a stereotypically cool Brooklyn literary scene and then an empty, dying midwest small town. She is saying that couples are only as strong as their surroundings power to divert them and push them together happily, but it is such a blunt tool she uses to write these two habitats
I was an English major during the 1960's and strongly disagree with your take on what we read in college. Perhaps my age, at the time, 22-25 help me to be more mature or interested in my reading assignments. I am now 82. I also have find memories of the many novels and essays I read.
Regards,
Steve Goldstein
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
I remember liking this book, but Flynn tries so hard to build a stereotypically cool Brooklyn literary scene and then an empty, dying midwest small town. She is saying that couples are only as strong as their surroundings power to divert them and push them together happily, but it is such a blunt tool she uses to write these two habitats