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powerfully written & poignant -- then falls flat, Sep 7 1998
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Allende conveys the agony and the big questions of life so powerfully throughout. If you have not yet faced adversity in life, read it. If you have, read it. One caveat, towards the end, the writer seems self-absorbed, annoyingly so, and that serves to discount the previous pages so beautifully written
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Fans of Allenda will understand; others won't., Aoû 21 1996
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I am a fan of Isabel Allende, so objectivity is out the window. Having a daughter that I dote on does not help. Allende's sadness and anguish are palpable. And it is hard for the reader to avoid being sucked into Allende's construction of context for Paula's fate. In the end, though, it doesn't work... The emerging endpoint obscures the supernatural thread, and the elegant, simple lines of storytelling so characteristic of Allende. There is a rambling aspect, that, while touching considering Allende's crisis, seems more cathartic than artistic. And the ending seems as though it belongs in another book (and I suspect that is what has happened). Isabel: My heart is with you, but..
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