Sunday, May 4, 2014
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
My bookclub's most recent book is A Fine and Private Place, which was a quick read but did not move me very much. It was sort of a modern take on "Our Place," which I always hated:
full of the soliloquies of the dead watching the living and trying to make sense of the meaning of life. Parts were touching and I was drawn to the character of Rebeck, a kindly old man who lives in a cemetery and can see and speak to the dead, but I would not necessarily recommend this book to others, as parts were a bit maudlin and overwrought.
full of the soliloquies of the dead watching the living and trying to make sense of the meaning of life. Parts were touching and I was drawn to the character of Rebeck, a kindly old man who lives in a cemetery and can see and speak to the dead, but I would not necessarily recommend this book to others, as parts were a bit maudlin and overwrought.
Labels:
bookclub,
death,
early 1900s,
fiction,
ghosts,
graveyard,
light reading,
LMB,
love,
tombstones
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