A Possible Life: A Novel In Five Love Stories (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
A Possible Life is more a collection of short stories rather than a novel but what a collection they are. They are all centred on ordinary people just living their lives but Faulks writes their lives in such beautiful, absorbing detail that I just could not put this down. The story of Geoffrey in particular was very thought provoking and one of the best ones, and the way that his experiences are written really brought them to life and made you feel like you were living at that moment in time with him. However the story of Jeanne I did not enjoy that much and for me was the weakest but even then I still enjoyed it. All of the five stories are very well written with wonderful descriptions and enjoyable and interesting characters that have been created that stay with you long after you close the book. For me this is as good as Faulks gets and is yet another superb example of his tremendous writing ability. A definite must read. Very well written short stories. I enjoyed 3 of the 5 stories alot but the other two not so much.A Possible Life' is subtitled a `Novel in Five Parts'. These parts are, five apparently separate short stories about individual characters in different times and locations. They include a mild school teacher who finds himself in a Nazi concentration camp, a pop musician living a hedonistic life in 1970s USA, a scientist in Italy in the near future, a former workhouse inmate in the nineteenth century and a simple French woman living as a servant during the Napoleonic Wars.
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I love Sebastian Faulks and this book is one of his best. Getting the story across in so many ways
—brunovsky
