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Winterton Blue (2007)

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ISBN
0802118410 (ISBN13: 9780802118417)
Language
English
Publisher
grove press

Winterton Blue (2007) - Plot & Excerpts

If you need immediate answers for the character's actions while you are reading - this is not the book for you! In fact, some of your questions may never be answered and you are left hanging. Some might say that this is reflective of life - but some would counter that the reason why we read fiction is that it is a way to get those questions answered.The style of the book is challenging. It is written in chapters and each chapter has sections that can go back in time. The reader has precious little information to situate themselves in time, place and character, i.e. this is not a book that headlines a section like a spy novel: "Trieste: June 16, 1904". On the other hand, it is not stream of consciousness and once you've got the basic places, times and situations you can get sorted.But the question I have to ask, does all this conjuring by the author add to the book? I can make a case that the disorder can be reflective of the characters. In fact the male character, Lewis, can be described as having a mental condition that is like the novel's style - he lives in the past and does not always know where he is or how he got there. Other characters also have this trait. But finally, I'm not sure the payoff of the style gamble pays off during a first reading - and unfortunately I don't think I'm tempted to do a second reading.

What do You think about Winterton Blue (2007)?

I should have guessed how good this book would be since I read her Remember Me, which was great. Here, she has two main characters. Anna is a young woman whose mother, Rita, has a large influence on her life. Rita is impetuous, flirty, and loud. Anne is embarrassed by her behaviour but finds it difficult to say why.Lewis is influenced unduly by the untimely death of his twin brother twenty years before. He has tried to escape it, but finds that it still follows him and influences how he feels about his environment.As he struggles to come to terms with the reality of what happened and Anna struggles to accept her mother as she is, they meet and immediately recognize something in each other.This is more than a love story, and Azzopardi does it very well. While it is early days yet, I think this will end up on my top reads for the year.
—Shonna Froebel

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