Marian Palaia
Auteur de The Given World: A Novel
Œuvres de Marian Palaia
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 69
- Popularité
- #250,752
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
I loved Riley, she makes so many mistakes, drugs, alcohol, leaving jobs, leaving relationships, never letting anything nor anyone become too important. So afraid of loss, she must always leave first. She does try to help those who she thinks need help the most, drug users, former vets, and people whom have lost their way. She never apologizes for who she is. This is such a gritty story, the sixties and the seventies and the drug culture, the draft and the war also of course the eighties and the AIDS epidemic. She will return home and knows than that she is lucky that there is still a chance and maybe a little something still left there for her.
This is this author's first novel and it is amazingly written. Easy to identify with because there cannot be that many of us that have never made a bad decision in life, or wish that we could turn back the clock and do something differently. Not a easy novel but a worthy one.… (plus d'informations)