Describe Books As Pearl
| Original Title: | Pearl |
| ISBN: | 1400078075 (ISBN13: 9781400078073) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Mary Gordon
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.19 | 546 Users | 101 Reviews
Point Of Books Pearl
| Title | : | Pearl |
| Author | : | Mary Gordon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | April 11th 2006 by Anchor (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Literary Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Adult |
Commentary In Favor Of Books Pearl
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics–nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself?Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and Pearl’s surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to Pearl’s side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, she takes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland’s tragic history. Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.
Rating Of Books Pearl
Ratings: 3.19 From 546 Users | 101 ReviewsArticle Of Books Pearl
I wanted to stop reading this book several times in the beginning. The constant narration is distracting and I found the storyline uninteresting. Another review had mentioned that the book would get better so I stuck with it. I would say that the middle of the book was good enough but I didn't enjoy the end either. It felt like the author just kept saying the same thing over and over again. I don't think I would recommend this book based in how painful it felt to read it.This book grabs you at it's start. The rest of the novel is tiresome and repetitious. As always, I read it through but there were no recognizable arcs. Nothing to actually make you want to continue. I felt like the character Pearl wanting to give up on my read just as she yearned to give up on life. I am glad to be finished with this book just as Pearl is now ready to be finished with the process of dying.This author has written a novel for which there is no reason to read.
(Novel)I loved this bookit just grabbed me and didnt let me go for some time. It is the story of a sensitive young woman named Pearl who commences a hunger strike and chains herself to the flag pole in front of the American embassy in Dublin as a dramatic act of witness to her friends senseless death. The embassy summons her mother, who is joined by their dearest family friend, to Dublin to help Pearl deal with her emotional crisis. The story is told by an unnamed narrator whose voice is
There were some philosophical thoughts about life and death that I appreciated, but they didn't need to be repeated as much as they were. I felt like Gordon was saying: in case you didn't get it the first time around, let me repeat it for you and, in fact, perhaps I should offer a 3rd version rephrased. This book could have been edited down.For most of the book I didn't like Pearl all that much and couldn't appreciate what she was doing and her reasons why, although I did soften a little at the
A complex book about mothers and daughters, religion, violence in Ireland and tremendous guilt.A young woman chains herself to the American Embassy in Dublin and is at the end of her hunger strike when she is forcibly removed to hospital.Meanwhile her mother and her uncle/stepfather are on their way to intervene in their own disparate ways. And thereby hangs the tale.I was initially irritated by the device of the all-knowing narrator but within a short while realized this was the only way the
Well, once again Mary Gordon is back, with another long, slow, soggy novel of Catholic guilt, cheap man-bashing feminism, and crude shanty Irish bigotry and self-pity. This time the plot is quite bizarre -- a spoiled Manhattan princess jets to Ireland and chains herself to the American embassy to illustrate her horror at man's inhumanity to man. Specifically she seems to be all choked up about some Irish boy who washed out of the IRA or something. Funny how the princess had to fly all the way to
Its not often I dont finish a book, but this is one I gave up on.
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